SG-1000 Hardware Crypto?
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Hi,
About 2 years ago, when we were talking about 2.5.0 coming out "soon", one of the mentioned features was enabling the am335x hardware crypto on SG-1000 devices. Obviously, a lot has changed since then in terms of that release, but I just wanted to get verification of whether or not this feature had made it in.
I've got three of these running Job Trailers and the like (OpenVPN connections back to home base, although now I'll probably switch them to wireguard), and we've certainly lived without hw crypto for this long, but I just thought it would be a nice little bonus.
For reference, I can verify that the home screen still shows "am335x built-in CPU Crypto (inactive)", even with cryptographic hardware set to "AES-NI and BSD Crypto". My SG-1100 and SG-2100 both now have "SafeXcel active", btw.
Thanks in advance for any insight on this feature!
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I feel like all this needs is someone to cross-compile the appropriate cryptodev module for the AM335x and we'd be there. Even for a forgotten piece of hardware, a good number of us bought these things and they are sat around gathering dust because of garbage OS support at the time of release.
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Unfortunately there was significantly more work required that that. We have had several developers working on it over the years bu each came to the conclusion that the work required to make it function usefully was more than the resulting improvement was worth.
Eventually we had to cease the development effort there.Steve
