Stuart Henderson [s...@spacehopper.org] wrote: > > there hasn't been support for any newer bus-based accelerators > added recently (overheads for these are typically rather high). > > currently if you want fast AES, you should be looking at the > newer intel cpus with AESNI (and OpenBSD 4.9 or newer), but this > doesn't fit your pcie 4x requirements.
I dunno, Gregory Perry hired Paul Otellini around the time the AESNI instructions were developed, he says that Paul put in AES weaknesses into new Intel chips for NASA. Apparently after Lisa Nowak was arrested for attempted kidnapping, NASA wanted a backdoor to monitor JPL's "Build Your Own Space Mission" live-chat sessions. A lot of folks doubted Gregory, they thought that "obviously" NASA would have simply added the monitoring code to the game itself, or they could have simply listened to the decrypted chatter at the game servers. Never the less, Gregory informs us that in fact they wanted the faults to be completely untraceable, even by "Symantec". Paul's job was to break AESNI in ever-so-subtle ways so that another national security disaster involving diapers, BB guns and pepper spray could be averted.
