Hello
Given the way you asked your questions, I don't expect you will get any
answers ...
On Wednesday 09 September 2009 16:52:12 Steve Polyack wrote:
> I may have asked this question before, but has anyone had any luck with
> getting Bacula to utilize a hardware crypto accelerator for FD
> encryption? Setting the engine(3) options in openssl.cnf do not appear
> to have any affect. This can be confirmed with statistic programs which
> hook into the crypto drivers, showing that no data is being processed by
> the accelerator during backups.
>
> A few months ago I attempted a patch to add OpenSSL engine(3) selection
> support to the Bacula source code. This was unsuccessful, as merely
> selecting and enabling the hardware crypto engine will cause Bacula to
> crash upon updating the cipher context. Based on various similar
> examples I have coded, the best I can come up with is that this has
> something to do with the IV generation / IVs that are being used.
I have no idea what IVs are, and I imagine it is the same for other
developers.
> Does anyone have any ideas here?
No.
>
> This is a valuable feature to support. When backing up large amounts of
> data, I have witnessed almost a quadrupling of the job run time after
> simply enabling FD encryption. Rates drop from 15MB/sec to under
> 5MB/sec, making backups take way too long. It is also easy to monitor
> the massive load which they put upon the CPU.
Kern
>
>
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