ncp(7D)ncp(7D)NAME
ncp - Niagara crypto provider device driver
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 Niagara CMT processor.
The ncp driver requires the presence of the Solaris Cryptographic Framework to enable applications and kernel clients to access the pro-
vided services.
CONFIGURATION
You configure the ncp driver by defining properties in /platform/sun4v/kernel/drv/ncp.conf which override the default settings. The fol-
lowing 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.
NETWORK STATISTICS
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 |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcakr.v |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Unstable |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
FILES
/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)
Solaris Cryptographic Framework -- Solaris Software Developer Collection
Solaris Security for Developer's Guide -- Solaris Software Developer Collection
14 Mar 2005 ncp(7D)
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n2cp(7d) Devices n2cp(7d)NAME
n2cp - Ultra-SPARC T2 crypto provider device driver
DESCRIPTION
The n2cp device driver is a multi-threaded, loadable hardware driver supporting hardware-assisted acceleration of the following crypto-
graphic operations, which are built into the Ultra-SPARC T2 CMT processor:
DES: CKM_DES_CBC, CKM_DES_ECB
DES3: CKM_DES3_CBC, CKM_DES3_ECB,
AES: CKM_AES_CBC, CKM_AES_ECB, CKM_AES_CTR, CKM_AES_CCM, CKM_AES_GCM
RC4: CKM_RC4
MD5: KM_MD5, CKM_MD5_HMAC, CKM_MD5_HMAC_GENERAL,
CKM_SSL3_MD5_MAC
SHA-1: CKM_SHA_1, CKM_SHA_1_HMAC,
CKM_SHA_1_HMAC_GENERAL, CKM_SSL3_SHA1_MAC
SHA-256:CKM_SHA256, CKM_SHA256_HMAC,
CKM_SHA256_HMAC_GENERAL
CONFIGURATION
You configure the n2cp driver by defining properties in the /kernel/drv/n2cp.conf which override the default settings. The following prop-
erty is supported:
nostats Disables the generation of statistics. The nostats property may be used to help prevent traffic analysis, how-
ever, this may inhibit support personnel.
CRYPTO STATISTICS
Solaris crypto drivers must implement statistics variables. The n2cp driver maintains the following statistics:
cwqXstate State (online, offline, error) of respective cryptographic engine, CWQ X.
cwqXsubmit Number of jobs submitted to CWQ X.
cwqXqfull Number of times when submitting a job that the queue for CWQ X was full.
cwqXqupdate_failure Number of submit job failures on CWQ X.
des Total number of jobs submitted to device for DES operations.
des3 Total number of jobs submitted to device for DES3 operations.
aes Total number of jobs submitted to device for AES operations.
md5 Total number of jobs submitted to device for MD5 operations.
sha1 Total number of jobs submitted to device for SHA-1 operations.
sha256 Total number of jobs submitted to device for SHA-256 operations.
md5hmac Total number of jobs submitted to device for HMAC_MD5 operations.
sha1hmac Total number of jobs submitted to device for HMAC_SHA-1 operations.
sha256hmac Total number of jobs submitted to device for HMAC_SHA-256 operations.
ssl3md5mac Total number of jobs submitted to device for SSL3_MAC_MD5 operations.
ssl3sha1mac Total number of jobs submitted to device for SSL3_MAC_SHA-1 operations.
ssl3sha256mac Total number of jobs submitted to device for SSL3_MAC_SHA-256 operations.
Note -
Additional statistics targeted for Sun support personnel are not documented in this manpage.
FILES
/kernel/drv/sparcv9/n2cp
64-bit ELF kernel driver.
/platform/sun4v/kernel/drv/n2cp.conf
Configuration file.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Architecture |SPARC |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWn2cp.v |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface stability |Unstable |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO elfsign(1), cryptoadm(1M), kstat(1M), libpkcs11(3LIB), printers.conf(4), pkcs11_kernel(5), attributes(5)
Solaris Cryptographic Framework - Solaris Software Developer Collection
Solaris Security for Developer's Guide - Solaris Software Developer Collection
SunOS 5.11 13 Jan 2009 n2cp(7d)