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Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Dan Anderson
SPARC T4 Digest and Crypto Optimizations in Solaris 11.1
In a previous
article I mentioned SPARC T4 processor optimizations added to
OpenSSL. The SPARC T4 processor supports new instructions to
assist AES, RSA, SHA,...
Friday, January 11, 2013
Dan Anderson
TPM Key Migration in Solaris
TPM Key Migration in Solaris
Introduction
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/>Solaris platforms use
the TPM 1.2 chip
"TPM" stands...
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Dan Anderson
How to tell if SPARC T4+ crypto is being used?
Update 2016: everything here applies to subsequent Oracle SPARC
processors since T4, including the SPARC M7/T7 line. Further
optimizations and speedups are...
Monday, October 22, 2012
Dan Anderson
Toorcon14
Toorcon 2012 Information Security Conference
San Diego, CA,
http://www.toorcon.org/
Dan Anderson, October 2012It's almost Halloween, and we all know what that...
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Dan Anderson
Optimizing Solaris 11 SHA-1 on Intel Processors
SHA-1 is a "hash" or "digest" operation that produces a 160 bit
(20 byte) checksum value on arbitrary data, such as a file.It is intended to uniquely identify...
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Dan Anderson
Optimizing AES modes on Solaris for Intel Westmere
Optimizing AES modes on Solaris for Intel Westmere
Review
AES is a strong method of symmetric (secret-key)
encryption.It is a U.S. FIPS-approved cryptographic...
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Dan Anderson
Solaris AESNI OpenSSL Engine for Intel Westmere
Solaris AESNI OpenSSL Engine for Intel Westmere
Cryptography is a major component of secure e-commerce.Since cryptography is compute intensive and adds a...
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Dan Anderson
SPARC T4 OpenSSL Engine
SPARC T4 OpenSSL Engine
Cryptography is a major component of secure e-commerce.Since cryptography is compute intensive and adds a significant load
to...
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Dan Anderson
Sign Sign everywhere a sign
Today our building's sign in San Diego. California was changed
from the purple Sun Microsystems sign
to the red Oracle sign.
However, the name Sun still lives on...