[Imap-uw] Hardware crypto accelerators

2008-04-24 Thread Tom Leach
Anyone out there using HW crypto accelerators for SSL/TLS imap sessions? I'm migrating from a Solaris environment that is using a Sun crypto card to a Linux environment where crypto drivers may be more difficult to come by and I'm wondering if the speed up in processing power from the newer

Re: [Imap-uw] Hardware crypto accelerators

2008-04-24 Thread Mark Crispin
This is my opinion only: I believe that a software implementation on a general-purpose processor will always have superior price/performance to a special-purpose processor; and furthermore that the performance (as opposed to price/performance) of a software implementation on a general-purpose

Re: [Imap-uw] Hardware crypto accelerators

2008-04-24 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi, Tom-- On Apr 24, 2008, at 10:50 AM, Tom Leach wrote: Anyone out there using HW crypto accelerators for SSL/TLS imap sessions? I'm migrating from a Solaris environment that is using a Sun crypto card to a Linux environment where crypto drivers may be more difficult to come by and I'm

Re: [Imap-uw] Hardware crypto accelerators

2008-04-24 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Apr 24, 2008, at 8:48 PM, Mark Crispin wrote: This is my opinion only: I believe that a software implementation on a general-purpose processor will always have superior price/performance to a special- purpose processor; and furthermore that the performance (as opposed to