On Tue, Apr 01 2008 at 00:15, Khalid Schofield wrote: > Hi, > I'm wondering what is the best crypto card to buy to use with openbsd to do > AES and blowfish and the SSL encryption. The question you should ask yourself is "Do you need an accelerated SSL card?"
As showed in http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=108220996010023&w=2, a fast CPU beats a crypto card for small packets. This is due to I/O and interrupts. If you intend to use embedded devices with small CPU, go for C7 ones, these CPU include a crypto accelerator. > Is this the best buy? http://www.soekris.com/vpn1401.htm I searched for crypto cards for IPSEC Encryption, the best answer I found was : not use one ;-) > It mentions AES but not blowfish. As said by other people, you should go for AES encryption. Claer
