[TLS] How to offload modular exponentiation to Octeon II Crypto Coprocessor

Debapriyay Mukhopadhyay <debapriyay.mukhopadhyay@gmail.com> Fri, 01 July 2016 11:49 UTC

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From: Debapriyay Mukhopadhyay <debapriyay.mukhopadhyay@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2016 17:19:31 +0530
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Subject: [TLS] How to offload modular exponentiation to Octeon II Crypto Coprocessor
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Hi,
   First of all, I beg apology if my post is not suitable for this group.

   Is it possible to offload modular exponentiation required in RSA and
Diffie-Hellman to         Hardware (Crypto Co-processor) that comes with
Octeon II platform.

  In some document, I have seen that Octeon II platform do support that.
But, I am not getting how to do that. What macros to be used etc?

Can anyone please provide me with some pointer that would be really helpful.

  Thanks.

Regards

Debapriyay Mukhopadhyay