Re: [oc] crypto-accelerator

[Wamnet@aol.com]

In a message dated 9/11/2000 4:02:39 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
tomstdenis@yahoo.com writes:

> If you can do it an ounce faster then a x86, and it's cheap who cares
>  about gigabit?  I would use it just to accelerate day-to-day usage of
>  say PGP.
>  
>  Tom

we get about 60Mb/s with 3des/sha1 vs. around 13Mb/s in software (OpenBSD). 
Our guy that works for us is one of the dev's for OpenBSD (does the drivers 
and kernel stuff). We had to get the guy that maintains the IPSEC section to 
add support for splitting the stack to insert calls to hardware. 

The next card we're doing does 300Mb/s 3des/sha1 then off to a full custom 
box that does 2.4Gb/s.