Dan Schwartz wrote: >>although this is not a particularly main-stream >>thing. If you really want to burst to 155 MBits/sec, you'll probably need >>some form of hardware acceleration (at least for a year or two, until the >>5-6 GHz CPU's come out). >> > > > If I need more CPU horsepower, I'll use 21264 (Alpha) CPU's instead. > Now that's a waste of money. I even doubt a 1Ghz 21264 will be faster than a 2Ghz x86 cpu, when doing integer calculations.
> >>You might also want to note that the new AES >>crypto algorithm is much more CPU friendly than 3DES (as are several other >>cryto standards). You may be able to find FreeS/WAN patches for rijendall >>(sp?) or some of the other alternate crypto schemes that will give you >>higher throughput than 3DES. >> I looked for them and didn't find any good ones. This an areas where IMHO OpenBSD (and perhaps the other *BSD's) is much more advanced than linux. OpenBSD does support hardware crypto accelerators, and X509 certificates, and other ciphers than 3des. Ewald Wasscher _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
