Notice a few things: o The OP asked about reducing CPU load, but the answers all talk about making encryption faster. These are not the same thing. Offloading encryption might *reduce* throughput of the encrypted streams, and yet free up CPU time to do other things. Encrypted communication might not be the highest priority task in the system, and there might not be much of it to do per unit time.
o This is a student project. The objective is to learn something specific about the design of digital systems, not (necessarily) to maximize throughput. The requirements don't have to make practical sense, so long as they make educational sense. Anyway, when did anyone pass a law that says requirements have to be sensible? :-) -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu Friends don't let friends publish revisable-form documents.
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