On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 14:15:49 +0100 David Hrbác( <hrbac.conf at seznam.cz> wrote: > Padlock support is not backported into Centos, nor upstream. Thanks for the heads-up! > 2.6.11 kernel it has been accepted into the source tree (only AES), so > we can expect it in RHEL/Centos5?!? For SHA1 and SHA256 every kernel > must be patched. $ rpm2cpio kernel-2.6.18-1.2747.el5.i686.rpm | cpio -t | grep 'padlock' ./lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2747.el5/kernel/drivers/crypto/padlock.ko Looking at the symbols this seems to implement AES offloading. > Interesting reading http://www.logix.cz/michal/doc/article.xp/padlock-en Very interesting indeed. -- Daniel