<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Alan Pope <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alan@popey.com">alan@popey.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
2009/3/7 Chris Ellis <<a href="mailto:chris.ellis.intrbiz@googlemail.com">chris.ellis.intrbiz@googlemail.com</a>>:<br>
<div class="im">> However VIA's new nano processor does beat the atom and is a far for<br>
> innovative design, including 1MB of cache. Its a shame its not out in any<br>
> netbooks yet.<br>
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</div>Sure, then the next Intel chip leapfrogs that, and then I'm certain<br>
Via will do the same again.. ad infinitum :)<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> Also the C7 will beat the cellery and atom and encryption tasks any day due<br>
> to the Padlock engine, hardware RNG, AES 256, etc.<br>
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</div>Do you need a specially compiled kernel for that?<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Al.<br>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br>Not that I'm aware of, I believe that there is an engine for OpenSSL to use the Padlock. I also expect any kernel support needed should be a module. I must get around to setting up an encrypted partition so I can play with it more.<br>
<br>CE <br></div></div><br>