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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: glxsb.4,v 1.1 2006/10/26 08:37:14 tom Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: glxsb.4,v 1.2 2007/03/18 13:49:40 tom Exp $
.\"
.\"Copyright (c) 2006 Tom Cosgrove <tom@openbsd.org>
.\"
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm glxsb
-.Nd Geode LX Security Block device
+.Nd Geode LX Security Block crypto accelerator
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Cd "glxsb* at pci?"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
@@ -36,8 +36,15 @@ Driven by periodic checks for available data from the generator,
supplies entropy to the
.Xr random 4
driver for common usage.
+.Pp
+.Nm
+also supports acceleration of AES-CBC operations for
+.Xr crypto 4 .
.Sh SEE ALSO
-.Xr random 4
+.Xr crypto 4 ,
+.Xr intro 4 ,
+.Xr random 4 ,
+.Xr crypto 9
.Sh HISTORY
Support for the
.Nm
@@ -51,5 +58,6 @@ driver was written by
.Sh BUGS
The
.Nm
-driver does not yet use the AES acceleration provided by the security block;
-it only uses the random number generator.
+driver only provides random numbers and AES acceleration.
+Since it does not provide HMACs, IPSec will not currently use it;
+it will however be used by OpenSSH.