> 2) If you were to attempt acceleration where do you get the most bang for
> your proverbial buck; just doing the encryption/decryption or doing the
> entire SSL on a card ?
The encryption is where you'd get the "bang for the buck." There are some RSA
accellerator chips out there that go up to "100 public key operations a second"
which should give you an idea of how slow that can be in software.
A lot of SSL sessions negotiate RC4 encryption, which is easy in software.
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