====== Hardware Support ======
The Marvell 88f5182 have a cryptographic hardware (named "CESA") thing that is allowing to reduce CPU usage while dealing with crypto stuff. If you check in the kernel, you'll see that this crypto hardware access is done using [[http://ocf-linux.sourceforge.net/|OCF]].

A guy from Marvell did post a dm-crypt.c patch to allow using OCF for encrypted partitions, I didn't checked DNS323's kernel source, but I don't think that this patch have been applied on it ...

You can find that patch [[http://lists.logix.cz/pipermail/cryptoapi/attachments/20050906/56889842/ocf_dm_crypt_3.obj|here]] and the message describing it [[http://lists.logix.cz/pipermail/cryptoapi/2005/000583.html|here]].
Note that the crypto hardware is supporting DES-CBC, 3DES-CBC and AES-CBC encryption !

Sylver
> this patch seems to be applied to the 2.6.12.6-Kernel sources that comes with Firmware 1.05, but it seems to be disabled [[wiki:user:icks]]

====== Speed measurements ======
I think the speeds measured in the article do not make much sense unless you know the speed of unencrypted disk access on the same hardware. [[wiki:user:icks]]