Do you know of a source for the Broadcom adapters? -Scott
At 08:28 AM 1/30/2003, you wrote:
Aleix
Not to open the hardware is better than software can of worms...
If you are looking for RAW crypto performance from hardware the nFast is really not IMO the way to go... Just as the IBM 4758 would not be the best device.. There are devices out that are capable of performing higher Private Key operation rates than the systems will at very reasonable costs. I would suggest that you consider the Broadcom adapters in this space. These devices are generally NOT FIPS validated and really are just modular exponentation engines. As Geoff points out, in many cases a single threaded application will not maximize the devices capabilities and therefore the offload of the CPU will not be as significant.
Each application environment is different, and the value associated with HW for crypto has to be evaluated in terms of the cost vs benifit. HW is NOT the silver bullet that many people think it is.
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