On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 11:04:17AM -0400, Mike wrote: > VPN at fairly high speeds. I'm not sure the hardware acceleration on > the VIA boards (called ACE, padlock, etc.) is supported for IPSec [1,2]. > I got these results: > > Pair of EPIA PD10000 with RNG and AES [3]: > AES SHA: 24 Mbps > BLF MD5: 34 Mbps >
the c3 (nehemiah) only supports AES, it does not support SHA hardware acceleration. indeed, AES crypto performance is amazing but per-packet SHA-HMAC authentication (used by IPSec ESP) will be the bottle neck. ---snip--- src/sys/arch/i386/machdep.c revision 1.321 date: 2005/06/26 19:23:53; author: deraadt; state: Exp; lines: +28 -14 cpu0: RNG AES AES-CTR SHA1 SHA256 RSA on fancy new VIA C3 Esther (aka C7) cpus ---snap--- reyk -- /* .vantronix|secure systems - (research & development) * reyk floeter - friendly known free software engineer * [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://team.vantronix.net/reyk/ */
