> Now, if the NIC were to integrate with OpenSSL and offload some of THAT
> donkey work... Just offloading DES isn't terribly useful, as Pavel says:
> apart from anything else, DES is a bit elderly now - SSH using 3DES or
> Blowfish etc... How dedicated is this card? Could it be used to offload
> other work?
Sorry my bad it is 3DES that they have on it, but I don't know how
in-grained it is in it. Like I sad it just floated across my desk a few
days ago and it sounded like a cool bit of hardware.
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