Re: Linux iSCSI Initiator, OpenSource (fwd) (Re: Gauntlet Set NOW!)

Andrew McGregor (andrew@indranet.co.nz)
Wed, 08 Jan 2003 12:09:14 +1300


Hardware acceleration is the right way to do any of this, agreed :-)

--On Tuesday, January 07, 2003 13:58:50 +0000 Alan Cox
<alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 12:31, Andrew McGregor wrote:
>> Or ESP, with or without encryption as well.
>>
>> But that does not acheive quite the same thing, because the iSCSI digest
>> is another lightweight checksum, albeit stronger than most, and does
>> not provide authentication. So AH or ESP is stronger, but slower.
>
> AH permits multiple digests, they also happen to correspond to the
> hardware accelerated ones on things like the 3c990...
>
>

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