octcrypto(4)

octcrypto4

Octeon cryptographic unit

Usage

octcrypto0 at mainbus0

Overview

The octcrypto driver utilizes the OCTEON cryptographic unit to provide a hardware-accelerated implementation of the following algorithms for ipsec(4):

AES-CBC

AES-CTR

AES-GCM

AES-GMAC

HMAC-MD5

HMAC-SHA1

HMAC-SHA2-256

HMAC-SHA2-384

HMAC-SHA2-512

History

The octcrypto driver first appeared in OpenBSD 6.4.

From man 8.0-current-20261101 in OpenBSD 8.0-current (2026-11-01). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.