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25.Dd July 29, 2020
26.Dt PADLOCK 4
27.Os
28.Sh NAME
29.Nm padlock
30.Nd "driver for the cryptographic functions and RNG in VIA C3, C7 and Eden processors"
31.Sh SYNOPSIS
32To compile this driver into the kernel,
33place the following lines in your
34kernel configuration file:
35.Bd -ragged -offset indent
36.Cd "device crypto"
37.Cd "device padlock"
38.Ed
39.Pp
40Alternatively, to load the driver as a
41module at boot time, place the following line in
42.Xr loader.conf 5 :
43.Bd -literal -offset indent
44padlock_load="YES"
45.Ed
46.Sh DESCRIPTION
47The C3 and Eden processor series from VIA include hardware acceleration for
48AES.
49The C7 series includes hardware acceleration for AES, SHA1, SHA256 and RSA.
50All of the above processor series include a hardware random number generator.
51.Pp
52The
53.Nm
54driver registers itself to accelerate AES operations and, if available, HMAC/SHA1
55and HMAC/SHA256 for
56.Xr crypto 4 .
57It also registers itself to accelerate other HMAC algorithms, although
58there is no hardware acceleration for those algorithms.
59This is only needed so
60.Nm
61can work with
62.Xr ipsec 4 .
63.Pp
64The hardware random number generator supplies data for the kernel
65.Xr random 4
66subsystem.
67.Sh SEE ALSO
68.Xr crypt 3 ,
69.Xr crypto 4 ,
70.Xr intro 4 ,
71.Xr ipsec 4 ,
72.Xr random 4 ,
73.Xr crypto 7 ,
74.Xr crypto 9
75.Sh HISTORY
76The
77.Nm
78driver first appeared in
79.Ox .
80The first
81.Fx
82release to include it was
83.Fx 6.0 .
84.Sh AUTHORS
85.An -nosplit
86The
87.Nm
88driver with AES encryption support was written by
89.An Jason Wright Aq Mt jason@OpenBSD.org .
90It was ported to
91.Fx
92and then extended to support SHA1 and SHA256
93by
94.An Pawel Jakub Dawidek Aq Mt pjd@FreeBSD.org .
95This manual page was written by
96.An Christian Brueffer Aq Mt brueffer@FreeBSD.org .
97