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Devices                                                   ncp(7D)



NAME
     ncp - UltraSPARC T1 server crypto provider device driver

DESCRIPTION
     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  Crypto-
     graphic  Framework to enable applications and kernel clients
     to access the provided services.

CONFIGURATION
     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  nos-
                tats 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 sub-
                           mit 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.




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Devices                                                   ncp(7D)



     dsaverify             Total number of jobs submitted to  the
                           device for DSA verification.



     Additional statistics may be supplied for Sun  support  per-
     sonnel, but are not useful to Solaris users and are not doc-
     umented in this manpage.

ATTRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
     butes:



     ____________________________________________________________
    |       ATTRIBUTE TYPE        |       ATTRIBUTE VALUE       |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|
    | Architecture                | SPARC                       |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|
    | Availability                | system/kernel/platform      |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|
    | Interface Stability         | Uncommitted                 |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|


FILES
     /platform/sun4v/kernel/drv/sparcv9/ncp

         64-bit ELF kernel driver.


     /platform/sun4v/kernel/drv/ncp.conf

         Configuration file.


SEE ALSO
     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








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