R.S. wrote, in part: >Crypto cards are also for performance but under specific conditions.
Sure, as SSL accelerators. But as you note, in that mode, you're essentially using the same hardware for a different purpose. I don't know how different the code load is on the card, but given that you can't have both at the same time, I'm assuming it's essentially totally separate. So it's perhaps as "similar" as running Windows vs Linux on the same PC-i.e., not very. CEX as a "regular" crypto accelerator, no - *perhaps* with very large blocks of data, but I've never seen any numbers that were convincing there. The only other case I can see is when you're processing largish blocks *and* you don't care about actual speed, just offload of expensive z MIPS on a maxed-out machine. Then the z MIPS used may be lower, at the cost of latency. ...phsiii ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
