From: Scott Francis (darkuncledarkuncle.net)
Date: Tue Aug 03 2004 - 23:09:34 CDT

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On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 06:54:38PM -0700, unknownabac.com said:
> In 2001 I tried to get HiFn to provide the required documentation so
> OpenBSD can build full support of the HiFn products. Obviously, that
> attempt didn't work out but none the less, I'm going to try it again. At
> the moment, I do not know if the VP of Marketing, Tom Moore, will even
> meet with me about it but I would like to be prepared.
>
> >From the developers I'll need to know what you want, specifically,
> preferably in as much detail as you can give me. I know in the past
> there have previously been issues regarding missing docs on how to
> program the HIPP but the more details you can give me on what you want,
> the better I can (hopefully) fill them.
>
> >From the users of HiFn or other crypto chipsets, either directly or
> indirectly, I'd like to hear statements regarding how important *BSD
> support is to you. Like any company, HiFn will be most interested in
> meeting the needs of it's customers and I would like to make HiFn aware
> of a need for *BSD support.
>
> If at all possible, please keep your replies on the list so they can be
> archived and used as examples for the folks at HiFn.
>
> And lastly, nope, I don't personally use crypto chipsets of any kind,
> instead, I just happen to live in the same place as the HiFn head
> quarters, so meeting with them would be easy for me.

My choice of crypto hardware is 100% based on whether or not there is solid
OpenBSD support. There is zero chance of me using any other OS (no other
project even comes close to OpenBSD in security and crypto integration), so
if a piece of hardware doesn't have full support in OpenBSD, I won't buy it,
no matter how good/cheap/fast it might be.
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