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The ncp device driver is a multi-threaded, loadable hardware driver supporting hardware assisted acceleration of RSA and DSA cryptographic operations. This support is built into the UltraSPARC T1 processor.
The ncp driver requires the presence of the Solaris Cryptographic Framework to enable applications and kernel clients to access the provided services.
You configure the ncp driver by defining properties in /platform/sun4v/kernel/drv/ncp.conf which override the default settings. The following property is supported:
nostats
Disables the generation of statistics. The nostats property may be used to help prevent traffic analysis, but this may inhibit support personnel.
Solaris network drivers must implement statistics variables. The ncp driver maintains the following statistics:
mauXqfull
Number of times the queue for MAU X was found full when attempting to submit jobs.
mauXupdate_failure
Number of submit job failures on MAU X.
mauXsubmit
Number of jobs submitted to MAU X since driver load (boot).
rsapublic
Total number of jobs submitted to the device for RSA public key operations.
rsaprivate
Total number of jobs submitted to the device for RSA private key operations.
dsasign
Total number of jobs submitted to the device for DSA signing.
dsaverify
Total number of jobs submitted to the device for DSA verification.
Additional statistics may be supplied for Sun support personnel, but are not useful to Solaris users and are not doc- umented in this manpage.
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
| Architecture | SPARC |
| Interface Stability | Unstable |
/platform/sun4v/kernel/drv/sparcv9/ncp
64-bit ELF kernel driver.
/platform/sun4v/kernel/drv/ncp.conf
Configuration file.
cryptoadm(1M), kstat(1M), prtconf(1M), attributes(5)
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