Re: [tor-relays] Does Tor work with Intel QAT acceleration

2022-04-12 Thread Andreas Bollhalder
-features-in-the-intel-qat-engine-for-openssl.html [1]: https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/tor-spec.txt   Regards Stefan  On 11.04.22 21:13, Andreas Bollhalder wrote:Hello Kevin Thanks a lot for your response. 1) Regarding the speedtest, my firewall is limiting the speed to around

Re: [tor-relays] Does Tor work with Intel QAT acceleration

2022-04-12 Thread Andreas Bollhalder
Hello Alex On Tuesday, April 12, 2022 16:19 CEST, "Alex Xu (Hello71)" wrote:  If you don't already have a QAT device, I would not suggest getting one specifically for Tor. In particular, Tor doesn't spend very much time actually doing AES. It's mostly overhead from cell processing, TCP, small

Re: [tor-relays] Does Tor work with Intel QAT acceleration

2022-04-12 Thread Andreas Bollhalder
Hello Alex Thank you for your nice hint ot QAT_Engine. Yes, in theory it really seems to be possible. Looking at the Github repo of the QAT_Engine, it looks like there are still some issues with OpenSSL 3.0: Support for QAT HW ECX, QAT SW ECX, QAT HW PRF and QAT HW HKDF is disabled when built

Re: [tor-relays] Does Tor work with Intel QAT acceleration

2022-04-12 Thread Andreas Bollhalder
tuation. pps.  Very jealous of your connectivity! On 4/10/2022 2:32 PM, Andreas Bollhalder wrote: > Hi all > > I have my first Tor relay up und running. It's currently installed on > a little desktop computer with an Intel i5 9500T CPU. My Internet > connection is 10Gb/s symetric. F

[tor-relays] Does Tor work with Intel QAT acceleration

2022-04-11 Thread Andreas Bollhalder
Hi all I have my first Tor relay up und running. It's currently installed on a little desktop computer with an Intel i5 9500T CPU. My Internet connection is 10Gb/s symetric. From this bandwidth, I would be able to spend a good part for supporting the Tor network. With that little machine, it