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28.Dd September 12, 2004
29.Dt SAFE 4
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm safe
33.Nd SafeNet crypto accelerator
34.Sh SYNOPSIS
35.Cd "device safe"
36.Pp
37.Nm sysctl Va hw.safe.debug
38.Nm sysctl Va hw.safe.dump
39.Nm sysctl Va hw.safe.rnginterval
40.Nm sysctl Va hw.safe.rngbufsize
41.Nm sysctl Va hw.safe.rngmaxalarm
42.Sh DESCRIPTION
43The
44.Nm
45driver supports cards containing SafeNet crypto accelerator chips.
46.Pp
47The
48.Nm
49driver registers itself to accelerate DES, Triple-DES, AES, MD5-HMAC,
50SHA1-HMAC, and NULL operations for
51.Xr ipsec 4
52and
53.Xr crypto 4 .
54.Pp
55On all models, the driver registers itself to provide random data to the
56.Xr random 4
57subsystem.
58Periodically the driver will poll the hardware RNG and retrieve
59data for use by the system.
60If the driver detects that the hardware RNG is resonating with any local
61signal, it will reset the oscillators that generate random data.
62Three
63.Xr sysctl 8
64settings control this procedure:
65.Va hw.safe.rnginterval
66specifies the time, in seconds, between polling operations,
67.Va hw.safe.rngbufsize
68specifies the number of 32-bit words to retrieve on each poll,
69and
70.Va hw.safe.rngmaxalarm
71specifies the threshold for resetting the oscillators.
72.Pp
73When the driver is compiled with
74.Dv SAFE_DEBUG
75defined, two
76.Xr sysctl 8
77variables are provided for debugging purposes:
78.Va hw.safe.debug
79can be set to a non-zero value to enable debugging messages to be sent
80to the console for each cryptographic operation,
81.Va hw.safe.dump
82is a write-only variable that can be used to force driver state to be sent
83to the console.
84Set this variable to
85.Dq Li ring
86to dump the current state of the descriptor ring,
87to
88.Dq Li dma
89to dump the hardware DMA registers,
90or
91to
92.Dq Li int
93to dump the hardware interrupt registers.
94.Sh HARDWARE
95The
96.Nm
97driver supports cards containing any of the following chips:
98.Bl -tag -width "SafeNet 1141" -offset indent
99.It SafeNet 1141
100The original chipset.
101Supports DES, Triple-DES, AES, MD5, and SHA-1
102symmetric crypto operations, RNG, public key operations, and full IPsec
103packet processing.
104.It SafeNet 1741
105A faster version of the 1141.
106.El
107.Sh SEE ALSO
108.Xr crypt 3 ,
109.Xr crypto 4 ,
110.Xr intro 4 ,
111.Xr ipsec 4 ,
112.Xr random 4 ,
113.Xr crypto 9
114.Sh BUGS
115Public key support is not implemented.
116