Re: Broadcom & OpenSSL support

2010-03-10 Thread Chris Clark
> One specific advancement is the AES-specific instruction set in the 2010 > Intel Core™ processor family; an excerpt: > Intel® AES instructions are a new set of instructions available beginning > with the all new 2010 Intel® Core™ processor family based on the 32nm Intel® > microarchitecture coden

Re: Broadcom & OpenSSL support

2010-03-10 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Tue March 9 2010, Lou Picciano wrote: > Luis, > > > I feel your pain. We were also recently working through the decision tree on > purchasing 'purpose-specific' encryption hardware for our servers; we were > talked out of it by people on this list and elsewhere, given advances in > CPUs.

Re: Broadcom & OpenSSL support

2010-03-09 Thread Lou Picciano
Luis, I feel your pain. We were also recently working through the decision tree on purchasing 'purpose-specific' encryption hardware for our servers; we were talked out of it by people on this list and elsewhere, given advances in CPUs. One specific advancement is the AES-specific instructi

Re: Broadcom & OpenSSL support

2010-03-09 Thread John R Pierce
Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz wrote: We are planning to buy this hardware http://www.broadcom.com/products/BCM800 It claims to run under linux, how ever after linux loads its module. I wonder to know if openssl will take advantege of it? thats a 6 year old product, hung on the old/slow PCI par