On 09/01/2010 02:28 PM, John Case wrote: > >> Also, afaik, zero people in the wild are actively running Tor with any >> crypto accelerator. May be a very painful process... I'm not really >> interested in documenting it unless its proven to scale by actual use. >> I want this document to end up with tested and reproduced results >> only. You know, Science. Not computerscience ;) > > > There was a _very_ interesting, long and detailed discussion of this > about 1 year ago on this list. > > I really do think some subset of that discussion should be included in > your "lore", at the very least the parts pertaining to the built-in > crypto acceleration included in recent sparc CPUs, which appear to be > the only non-painful way to make this work. > > My impression was that a significant boost could be had by accelerating > openssl using this on-chip features...
If you're using a fast CPU, it's almost not worth the trouble to bother with hardware acceleration. All the best, Jacob *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/