[ltp] FRITZChip

Tino Keitel linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 15 May 2003 10:47:00 +0200


On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 10:32:31 +0200, Frank Fiene wrote:
> How to use the crpyptographic chip on my A31p?
> 
> Can i use it as an AES accelration processor? Or yre there only keys on 
> this chip?
> Can i use it with freeswan or OpenSSL?

I don't think that you can use it for hardware accelleration (because
it won't give much accelleration :-). A GPLed device driver can be
found at <http://www.research.ibm.com/gsal/tcpa/>, however, it only
manages reading/writing raw data from/to the TPM chip, so you have to
write your own application to actually use the TPM features. I don't
know if anything usefull already exists for Linux/UNIX.

Regards,
Tino

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