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1.45      deraadt    17: <br>
                     18: <br>
                     19: <br>
1.61      deraadt    20: "The mantra of any good security engineer is: "Security is not a
1.45      deraadt    21: product, but a process." It's more than designing strong cryptography
                     22: into a system; it's designing the entire system such that all security
                     23: measures, including cryptography, work together."<br>
                     24: <br>
                     25: -- Bruce Schneier, author of "Applied Cryptography".
1.114     jufi       26: <br clear="all">
                     27: <h2><font color="#e00000">Cryptography</font></h2>
                     28: <hr>
1.32      deraadt    29:
                     30: <strong>Index</strong><br>
1.114     jufi       31: <a href="#why">Why do we ship cryptography?</a>.<br>
                     32: <a href="#ssh">OpenSSH</a>.<br>
                     33: <a href="#prng">Pseudo Random Number Generators</a> (PRNG): ARC4, ...<br>
                     34: <a href="#hash">Cryptographic Hash Functions</a>: MD5, SHA1, ...<br>
                     35: <a href="#trans">Cryptographic Transforms</a>: DES, Blowfish, ...<br>
                     36: <a href="#hardware">Cryptographic Hardware support</a><br>
                     37: <a href="#people">International Cryptographers wanted</a><br>
                     38: <a href="#papers">Further Reading</a><br>
1.1       deraadt    39: <p>
1.32      deraadt    40: <hr>
                     41:
1.114     jufi       42: <a name="why"></a>
                     43: <h3><font color="#e00000">Why do we ship cryptography?</font></h3><p>
1.32      deraadt    44:
                     45: In three words:  <strong>because we can</strong>.<p>
                     46:
1.1       deraadt    47: The OpenBSD project is based in Canada.<p>
                     48:
1.114     jufi       49: The <a href="ECL.html">Export Control List of Canada</a>
1.23      deraadt    50: places no significant restriction on the export of
1.5       deraadt    51: cryptographic software, and is even more explicit about the free
                     52: export of freely-available cryptographic software.  Marc Plumb has
                     53: done
1.116     nick       54: <a href="http://www.efc.ca/pages/doc/crypto-export.html">
1.31      aaron      55: some research to test the cryptographic laws</a>.
1.2       deraadt    56: <p>
1.1       deraadt    57:
1.3       deraadt    58: Hence the OpenBSD project has embedded cryptography into numerous places
                     59: in the operating system.  We require that the cryptographic software we
1.114     jufi       60: use be <a href="policy.html">freely available and with good licenses</a>.
1.32      deraadt    61: We do not directly use cryptography with nasty patents.
1.13      deraadt    62: We also require that such software is from countries with useful export
1.16      deraadt    63: licenses because we do not wish to break the laws of any country.
                     64: The cryptographic software components which we use currently were
                     65: written in Argentina, Australia, Canada, Germany, Greece, Norway, and
                     66: Sweden.
                     67: <p>
1.7       deraadt    68:
1.15      deraadt    69: When we create OpenBSD releases or snapshots we build our release
                     70: binaries in free countries to assure that the sources and binaries we
                     71: provide to users are free of tainting.  In the past our release binary
                     72: builds have been done in Canada, Sweden, and Germany.<p>
                     73:
1.124     jmc        74: OpenBSD ships with Kerberos V included.  The codebase we use is the
                     75: exportable Heimdal release from Sweden.  Our X11 source has been
                     76: extended to make use of Kerberos as well.<p>
1.16      deraadt    77:
1.67      deraadt    78:
1.114     jufi       79: <img align="right" src="images/vpnc-test-partner.gif" alt="VPNC TEST PARTNER">
1.87      brad       80: OpenBSD was the first operating system to ship with an IPsec stack.
1.102     brad       81: We've been including IPsec since the OpenBSD 2.1 release in 1997.
1.87      brad       82: Our fully conformant in-kernel IPsec stack, with hardware acceleration
1.66      deraadt    83: based on a number of cards, and our own free ISAKMP daemon, is used as
1.87      brad       84: one of the machines in the IPsec conformance testbed run by
1.67      deraadt    85: <a href="http://www.vpnc.org">VPNC</a>.
1.114     jufi       86: <br clear="all">
1.66      deraadt    87: <p>
                     88:
1.15      deraadt    89: Today cryptography is an important means for enhancing the <a
1.114     jufi       90: href="security.html">security</a> of an operating system.  The
1.42      deraadt    91: cryptography utilized in OpenBSD can be classified into various
                     92: aspects, described as follows.<p>
1.10      deraadt    93:
1.114     jufi       94: <a name="ssh"></a>
                     95: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenSSH</font></h3><p>
1.39      louis      96:
1.55      deraadt    97: As of the 2.6 release, OpenBSD contains
1.50      provos     98: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, an absolutely free and
                     99: patent unencumbered version of ssh.
1.55      deraadt   100: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a> interoperated with ssh
                    101: version 1 and had many added features,
1.47      provos    102: <ul>
                    103: <li>
1.88      brad      104: all components of a restrictive nature (i.e., patents, see
1.114     jufi      105: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssl&amp;sektion=8">ssl(8)</a>)
1.55      deraadt   106: had been directly removed from the source code; any licensed or
                    107: patented components used external libraries.
1.47      provos    108: <li>
1.55      deraadt   109: had been updated to support ssh protocol 1.5.
1.47      provos    110: <li>
1.124     jmc       111: contained added support for Kerberos authentication and ticket passing.
1.47      provos    112: <li>
1.55      deraadt   113: supported one-time password authentication with
1.114     jufi      114: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=skey&amp;sektion=1">skey(1)</a>.
1.47      provos    115: </ul>
                    116: <p>
                    117:
1.93      deraadt   118: Roughly said, we took a free license release of ssh, OpenBSD-ifyed it.
                    119: About a year later, we extended OpenSSH to also do SSH 2 protocol, the
                    120: result being support for all 3 major SSH protocols: 1.3, 1.5, 2.0.
1.39      louis     121:
1.114     jufi      122: <a name="prng"></a>
                    123: <h3><font color="#e00000">Pseudo Random Number Generators</font></h3><p>
1.32      deraadt   124:
1.10      deraadt   125: A Pseudo Random Number Generator (PRNG) provides applications with a stream of
                    126: numbers which have certain important properties for system security:<p>
                    127:
                    128: <ul>
1.11      deraadt   129: <li>It should be impossible for an outsider to predict the output of the
                    130:        random number generator even with knowledge of previous output.
                    131: <li>The generated numbers should not have repeating patterns which means
                    132:        the PRNG should have a very long cycle length.
1.10      deraadt   133: </ul>
1.32      deraadt   134: <p>
1.10      deraadt   135:
1.13      deraadt   136: A PRNG is normally just an algorithm where the same initial starting
                    137: values will yield the same sequence of outputs. On a multiuser
                    138: operating system there are many sources which allow seeding the PRNG
                    139: with random data. The OpenBSD kernel uses the mouse interrupt timing,
                    140: network data interrupt latency, inter-keypress timing and disk IO
                    141: information to fill an entropy pool.  Random numbers are available for
                    142: kernel routines and are exported via devices to userland programs.
1.36      deraadt   143: So far random numbers are used in the following places:<p>
1.13      deraadt   144:
1.10      deraadt   145: <ul>
1.14      deraadt   146: <li>Dynamic sin_port allocation in bind(2).
                    147: <li>PIDs of processes.
1.26      aaron     148: <li>IP datagram IDs.
1.14      deraadt   149: <li>RPC transaction IDs (XID).
                    150: <li>NFS RPC transaction IDs (XID).
                    151: <li>DNS Query-IDs.
                    152: <li>Inode generation numbers, see getfh(2) and fsirand(8).
1.31      aaron     153: <li>Timing perturbance in traceroute(8).
1.14      deraadt   154: <li>Stronger temporary names for mktemp(3) and mkstemp(3)
                    155: <li>Randomness added to the TCP ISS value for protection against
                    156:        spoofing attacks.
1.87      brad      157: <li>random padding in IPsec esp_old packets.
1.14      deraadt   158: <li>To generate salts for the various password algorithms.
                    159: <li>For generating fake S/Key challenges.
1.114     jufi      160: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=isakmpd&amp;sektion=8">isakmpd(8)</a>
1.28      angelos   161:        to provide liveness proof of key exchanges.
1.10      deraadt   162: </ul>
1.1       deraadt   163:
1.10      deraadt   164: <p>
1.114     jufi      165: <a name="hash"></a>
                    166: <h3><font color="#e00000">Cryptographic Hash Functions</font></h3><p>
1.32      deraadt   167:
1.10      deraadt   168: A Hash Function compresses its input data to a string of
1.36      deraadt   169: constant size. For a Cryptographic Hash Function it is infeasible to find:
                    170:
1.1       deraadt   171: <ul>
1.11      deraadt   172: <li>two inputs which have the same output (collision resistant),
                    173: <li>a different input for a given input with the same output
                    174:        (2nd preimage resistant).
1.1       deraadt   175: </ul>
1.32      deraadt   176: <p>
1.10      deraadt   177:
1.12      millert   178: In OpenBSD MD5, SHA1, and RIPEMD-160 are used as Cryptographic Hash Functions,
1.36      deraadt   179: e.g:<p>
1.10      deraadt   180: <ul>
1.114     jufi      181: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=skey&amp;sektion=1">S/Key(1)</a>
1.27      deraadt   182:     to provide one time passwords.
1.114     jufi      183: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&amp;sektion=4">IPsec(4)</a>
1.27      deraadt   184:     and
1.114     jufi      185:     <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=isakmpd&amp;sektion=8">isakmpd(8)</a>
1.27      deraadt   186:     to authenticate the data origin of packets and to ensure packet integrity.
                    187: <li>For FreeBSD-style MD5 passwords (not enabled by default), see
1.114     jufi      188:     <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=passwd.conf&amp;sektion=5">
1.27      deraadt   189:     passwd.conf(5)</a>
1.24      niklas    190: <li>In libssl for digital signing of messages.
1.10      deraadt   191: </ul>
1.32      deraadt   192: <p>
1.10      deraadt   193:
1.6       deraadt   194: <p>
1.71      jufi      195: <a name="trans"></a>
1.114     jufi      196: <h3><font color="#e00000">Cryptographic Transforms</font></h3><p>
1.32      deraadt   197:
1.11      deraadt   198: Cryptographic Transforms are used to encrypt and decrypt data. These
                    199: are normally used with an encryption key for data encryption and with
                    200: a decryption key for data decryption. The security of a Cryptographic
                    201: Transform should rely only on the keying material.<p>
1.6       deraadt   202:
1.24      niklas    203: OpenBSD provides transforms like DES, 3DES, Blowfish and Cast for the
1.36      deraadt   204: kernel and userland programs, which are used in many places like:<p>
1.10      deraadt   205: <ul>
1.27      deraadt   206: <li>In libc for creating
1.114     jufi      207:     <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=blf_key&amp;sektion=3">Blowfish</a>
1.71      jufi      208:     passwords.  See also the <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">USENIX paper</a>
1.33      deraadt   209:     on this topic.
1.27      deraadt   210: <li>In
1.114     jufi      211:     <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&amp;sektion=4">IPsec(4)</a>
1.27      deraadt   212:     to provide confidentiality for the network layer.
1.114     jufi      213: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=isakmpd&amp;sektion=8">isakmpd(8)</a>
1.87      brad      214:     to protect the exchanges where IPsec key material is negotiated.
1.24      niklas    215: <li>In AFS to protect the messages passing over the network, providing
1.27      deraadt   216:     confidentiality of remote filesystem access.
1.24      niklas    217: <li>In libssl to let applications communicate over the de-facto standard
                    218:        cryptographically secure SSL protocol.
1.10      deraadt   219: </ul>
1.1       deraadt   220:
1.10      deraadt   221: <p>
1.114     jufi      222: <a name="hardware"></a>
                    223: <h3><font color="#e00000">Cryptographic Hardware Support</font></h3><p>
1.51      deraadt   224:
1.58      louis     225: OpenBSD, starting with 2.7, has begun supporting some cryptography hardware
                    226: such as accelerators and random number generators.
1.51      deraadt   227: <ul>
1.114     jufi      228: <li><b><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=crypto&amp;sektion=9">
1.92      jason     229:     IPsec crypto dequeue</a></b><br>
1.87      brad      230:     Our IPsec stack has been modified so that cryptographic functions get
                    231:     done out-of-line.  Most simple software IPsec stacks need to do
1.82      pvalchev  232:     cryptography when processing each packet.  This results in synchronous
1.73      aaron     233:     performance.  To use hardware properly and speedily one needs to separate
1.51      deraadt   234:     these two components, as we have done.  Actually, doing this gains some
                    235:     performance even for the software case.
                    236: <p>
1.114     jufi      237: <li><b><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=hifn&amp;sektion=4">
1.88      brad      238:     Hifn 7751</a></b><br>
                    239:     Cards using the Hifn 7751 can be used as a symmetric cryptographic
1.101     deraadt   240:     accelerator, i.e., the
                    241:     <a href="http://www.soekris.com/vpn1201.htm">Soekris VPN1201 or VPN1211</a>
                    242:     (<a href="http://www.soekris.com/how_to_buy.htm">to buy</a>)
                    243:     or
                    244:     <a href="http://www.powercrypt.com">PowerCrypt</a>.
1.51      deraadt   245:     Current performance using a single Hifn 7751 on each end of a tunnel
1.88      brad      246:     is 64Mbit/sec for 3DES/SHA1 ESP, nearly a 600% improvement over
                    247:     using a P3/550 CPU.  Further improvements are under way to resolve a
1.51      deraadt   248:     few more issues, but as of April 13, 2000 the code is considered
1.53      deraadt   249:     stable.  We wrote our own driver for supporting this chip, rather
                    250:     than using the (USA-written)
1.88      brad      251:     <a href="http://www.powercrypt.com">PowerCrypt</a> driver, as well
1.87      brad      252:     our driver links in properly to the IPsec stack.
1.53      deraadt   253:     The 7751 is now considered slow by industry standards and many vendors
1.88      brad      254:     have faster chips (even Hifn now has a faster but more expensive
1.89      jufi      255:     chip).  Peak performance with 3DES SHA1 ESP is around 64Mbit/sec.
1.60      deraadt   256:     <p>
1.97      jason     257:     After 2.9 shipped, support was added for the Hifn 7951 chip, a
                    258:     simplified version of the 7751 which adds a public key accelerator
                    259:     (unsupported) and a random number generator (supported).  Cards
                    260:     were donated by <a href="http://www.soekris.com/">Soekris Engineering</a>.
                    261:     <p>
                    262:     After 3.0 shipped, support was added for the Hifn 7811 chip, a
                    263:     faster version of the 7751 (around 130Mbit/s) with a random number
                    264:     generator.  A card was donated by <a href="http://www.gtgi.com/">GTGI</a>.
                    265:     <p>
1.118     jason     266:     After 3.2 shipped, support was added for the LZS compression algorithm
                    267:     used by <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipcomp&amp;sektion=4">ipcomp(4)</a>.
                    268:     <p>
1.123     jason     269:     After 3.4 shipped, support was added for the 7955 and 7956 chips.
                    270:     In addition to all the features of the previous 7951 chip, these add AES.
                    271:     <p>
1.118     jason     272:     Hifn was initially a difficult company to deal with (threatening to sue
1.119     deraadt   273:     us over our non-USA reverse engineering of their crypto unlock algorithm),
                    274:     but more recently they have been very helpful in providing boards and
                    275:     support.
1.53      deraadt   276:     <p>
1.69      deraadt   277:
1.114     jufi      278: <li><b><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=lofn&amp;sektion=4">
1.92      jason     279:     Hifn 6500</a></b><br>
1.86      brad      280:     This device is an asymmetric crypto unit.  It has support for RSA, DSA,
1.69      deraadt   281:     and DH algorithms, as well as other major big number functions.  It also
                    282:     contains a very high performance random number generator.  We have one
1.107     deraadt   283:     device, full documentation, and sample code.  As of OpenBSD 3.1,
1.105     jason     284:     both the random number generator and big number unit are working.
                    285:     <p>
                    286:
1.114     jufi      287: <li><b><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=nofn&amp;sektion=4">
1.105     jason     288:     Hifn 7814/7851/7854</a></b><br>
                    289:     This device is a packet processor and asymmetric crypto unit.  It has
                    290:     support for RSA, DSA, and DH algorithms, as well as other major big number
                    291:     functions and also has a random number generator.  Currently, only the
                    292:     big number engine and the random number generator are supported (no
                    293:     packet transforms).
1.69      deraadt   294:     <p>
                    295:
1.114     jufi      296: <li><b><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ubsec&amp;sektion=4">
1.122     jason     297:     Broadcom BCM5801/BCM5802/BCM5805/BCM5820/BCM5821/BCM5822/5823
1.105     jason     298:     (or beta chip Bluesteelnet 5501/5601)</a></b><br>
1.65      deraadt   299:     Just after the OpenBSD 2.7 release, we succeeded at adding preliminary
                    300:     support for these early release parts provided to us by the vendor,
1.76      deraadt   301:     specifically starting with the test chip 5501.
1.69      deraadt   302:     These devices provide the highest performance symmetric cryptography
                    303:     we have seen.
                    304:     <p>
1.59      deraadt   305:     Bluesteelnet was bought by Broadcom and started making real parts.
1.84      pvalchev  306:     Their new BCM5805 is similar, except that they also add an asymmetric
1.65      deraadt   307:     engine for running DSA, RSA, and other such algorithms.  With approximate
1.88      brad      308:     performance starting at more than four times as fast as the Hifn,
1.65      deraadt   309:     hopefully this chip will become more common soon.
1.60      deraadt   310:     <p>
                    311:     The Broadcom/Bluesteelnet people have been great to deal with.  They gave
1.69      deraadt   312:     us complete documentation and sample code for their chips and a
                    313:     sufficient number of cards to test with.
1.60      deraadt   314:     <p>
1.74      deraadt   315:     Post 2.8, this driver was also modified to generate random numbers on
                    316:     the BCM5805 and similar versions, and feed that data into the kernel
                    317:     entropy pool.
                    318:     <p>
1.96      jason     319:     Post 2.9, support was added for the BCM5820, which is mostly just a
                    320:     faster (64bit, higher clock speed) version of the BCM5805.  Untested
                    321:     support for the BCM5821 was also added post 3.0.
1.100     jason     322:     <p>
1.111     jufi      323:     As of 3.1, the big num engine is supported, and RSA/DH/DSA operations
1.107     deraadt   324:     can be accelerated.
                    325:     <p>
1.108     jason     326:     Support for the BCM5801, BCM5802, BCM5821 and BCM5822 was added before
1.109     jason     327:     OpenBSD 3.2 (the untested BCM5821 support in 3.1 was broken because of
                    328:     some undocumented interrupt handling requirements).
1.108     jason     329:     <p>
1.122     jason     330:     Partial support for BCM5823 was added for 3.4.  The chip supports AES,
                    331:     but the driver does not.
                    332:     <p>
1.60      deraadt   333:
1.114     jufi      334: <li><b><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ises&amp;sektion=4">
1.88      brad      335:     Securealink PCC-ISES</a></b><br>
1.115     jufi      336:     The <a href="http://www.safenet-inc.com/technology/chips/safexcel_ises.asp">
                    337:     PCC-ISES</a> is a new chipset from the Netherlands.  We have received
                    338:     sample hardware and documentation, and work on a driver is in progress.
                    339:     At the moment, the driver is capable of feeding random numbers into
                    340:     the kernel entropy pool.
1.60      deraadt   341:     <p>
                    342:
1.88      brad      343: <li><b>SafeNet SafeXcel 2141</b><br>
1.60      deraadt   344:     We have received documentation and sample hardware for the
1.115     jufi      345:     <a href="http://www.safenet-inc.com/technology/chips/safexcel_2141.asp">SafeNet</a>
1.72      deraadt   346:     crypto cards.  Work to support at least the symmetric cryptography of
                    347:     these devices has started.
1.57      deraadt   348:     <p>
                    349:
1.114     jufi      350: <li><b><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=txp&amp;sektion=4">
1.110     jason     351:     3com 3cr990</a></b><br>
1.77      deraadt   352:     3com gave us a driver to support the ethernet component of this chipset,
1.79      ericj     353:     and based on that, we have written our own ethernet driver. This driver
                    354:     has now been integrated once we were able to get a free license on the
1.110     jason     355:     microcode.  Due to poor documentation and lack of cooperation (partly
                    356:     because of the high turnover rates at 3Com), the IPsec functions of the
                    357:     chip are not supported.... so this turned out to be a less than completely
                    358:     useful exercise.
1.69      deraadt   359:     <p>
                    360:
1.87      brad      361: <li><b>Intel IPsec card</b><br>
1.77      deraadt   362:     Much like Intel does for all their networking division components, and
1.93      deraadt   363:     completely unlike most other vendors, Intel steadfastly refuses to provide
1.77      deraadt   364:     us with documentation.  We have talked to about five technical people who
                    365:     are involved in the development of those products.  They all want us to
                    366:     have documentation.  They commend us on what we have done.  But their hands
                    367:     are tied by management who does not perceive a benefit to themselves for
                    368:     providing documentation.  Forget about Intel.  (If you want to buy gigabit
                    369:     ethernet hardware, we recommend anything else... for the same reason:
                    370:     most drivers we have for Intel networking hardware were written without
                    371:     documentation).
1.52      deraadt   372:     <p>
1.69      deraadt   373:
1.114     jufi      374: <li><b><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pchb&amp;sektion=4">
1.80      deraadt   375:     Intel 82802AB/82802AC Firmware Hub RNG</a></b><br>
1.74      deraadt   376:     The 82802 FWH chip (found on i810, i820, i840, i850, and i860 motherboards)
1.87      brad      377:     contains a random number generator (RNG).  High-performance IPsec
1.74      deraadt   378:     requires more random number entropy.  As of April 10, 2000, we support
1.90      jsyn      379:     the RNG.  We will add support for other RNGs found on crypto chips.
1.69      deraadt   380:     <p>
                    381:
1.120     deraadt   382: <li><b>VIA C3 RNG</b><br>
                    383:     The newer VIA C3 cpu contains a random number generator as an instruction.
                    384:     As of <a href="33.html">3.3</a> this random number generator is used
                    385:     inside the kernel to feed the entropy pool.
                    386:     <p>
                    387:
1.127   ! deraadt   388: <li><b>VIA C3 AES instructions</b><br>
        !           389:     VIA C3 cpus with a step 8 or later Nehemiah core contains an AES
        !           390:     implementation accessible via simple instructions. As of <a
        !           391:     href="34.html">3.4</a> the kernel supports them to be used in an
        !           392:     IPsec context and exported by <tt>/dev/crypto</tt>. As of <a
        !           393:     href="35.html">3.5</a> performances have been greatly improved
        !           394:     and OpenSSL now uses the new instruction directly when available
        !           395:     without the need to enter the kernel, resulting in vastly
        !           396:     improved speed (AES-128 measured at 780MByte/sec) for applications
        !           397:     using OpenSSL to perform AES encryption.
        !           398:     <p>
        !           399:
1.52      deraadt   400: <li><b>OpenSSL</b><br>
1.107     deraadt   401:     Years ago, we had a grand scheme to support crypto cards that can do
                    402:     RSA/DH/DSA automatically via OpenSSL calls.  As of OpenBSD 3.2, that
                    403:     support works, and any card that is supported with such functionality
                    404:     will automatically use the hardware, including OpenSSH and httpd in
                    405:     SSL mode.  No application changes are required.
1.51      deraadt   406: </ul>
                    407:
                    408: <p>
1.69      deraadt   409: <b>If people wish to help with writing drivers,
1.114     jufi      410: <a href="#people">come and help us</a>.</b>
1.69      deraadt   411:
                    412: <p>
1.114     jufi      413: <a name="people"></a>
                    414: <h3><font color="#e00000">International Cryptographers Wanted</font></h3><p>
1.32      deraadt   415:
                    416: Of course, our project needs people to work on these systems.  If any
                    417: non-American cryptographer who meets the constraints listed earlier is
                    418: interested in helping out with embedded cryptography in OpenBSD,
                    419: please contact us.<p>
                    420:
1.33      deraadt   421: <p>
1.114     jufi      422: <a name="papers"></a>
                    423: <h3><font color="#e00000">Further Reading</font></h3><p>
1.33      deraadt   424:
                    425: A number of papers have been written by OpenBSD team members, about
                    426: cryptographic changes they have done in OpenBSD.  The postscript
1.34      deraadt   427: versions of these documents are available as follows.<p>
1.33      deraadt   428:
                    429: <ul>
1.43      deraadt   430: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.114     jufi      431:     <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
                    432:     by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>,
                    433:     <a href="mailto:dm@openbsd.org">David Mazieres</a>.<br>
                    434:     <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
                    435:     <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.43      deraadt   436: <p>
                    437: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.114     jufi      438:     <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
                    439:     by <a href="mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org">Theo de Raadt</a>,
                    440:     <a href="mailto:niklas@openbsd.org">Niklas Hallqvist</a>,
                    441:     <a href="mailto:art@openbsd.org">Artur Grabowski</a>,
                    442:     <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
                    443:     <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
                    444:     <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
                    445:     <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.62      niklas    446: <p>
                    447: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange (IKE).<br>
1.114     jufi      448:     <a href="events.html#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>,
                    449:     by <a href="mailto:niklas@openbsd.org">Niklas Hallqvist</a> and
                    450:     <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>.<br>
                    451:     <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
                    452:     <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
                    453: <p>
                    454: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory.<br>
                    455:     <a href="events.html#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>,
                    456:     <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
                    457:     <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
                    458:     <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.121     jason     459: <p>
                    460: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework.<br>
                    461:     <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
                    462:     <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
                    463:     <a href="mailto:jason@openbsd.org">Jason L. Wright</a>, and
                    464:     <a href="mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org">Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
                    465:     <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
1.33      deraadt   466: </ul>
                    467:
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