This adds Atalla support code to the ENGINE framework. If you have an
Atalla card, you should be able to compile with the "hw-atalla" switch with "./config" or "perl Configure", and then you can use the command- line switch "-engine atalla" inside speed, s_cient and s_server (after checking out note (1)). Notes: (1) I've turned on native name translation when loading the shared- library, but this means that the Unix shared library needs to be libatasi.so rather than atasi.so. I got around this in my testing by creating a symbollic link from /usr/lib/libatasi.so to the real library, but something better will be needed. It also assumes in win32 that the DLL will be called atasi.dll - but as I don't have a win32/atalla environment to try I have no idea yet if this is the case. (2) Currently DSA verifies are not accelerated because I haven't yet got a mod_exp-based variant of BN_mod_exp2_mont() that yields correct results. (3) Currently the "init()" doesn't fail if the shared library can load successfully but the card is not operational. In this case, the ENGINE_init() call will succeed, but all RSA, DSA, DH, and the two BN_*** operations will fail until the ENGINE is switched back to something that does work. I expect to correct this next. (4) Although the API for the Atalla card just has the one crypto function suggesting an RSA private key operation - this is in fact just a straight mod_exp function that ignores all the RSA key parameters except the (private) exponent and modulus. This is why the only accelerator work is taking place inside the mod_exp function and there's no optimisation of RSA private key operations based on CRT etc.
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