[tor-relays] hardware accelerated crypto

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Am Fri, 13 Sep 2013 00:25:47 +0200
schrieb Sarah Vigote <pixelle at riseup.net>:

I once meassured the performance of the padlock crypto chip
on a VIA Esther C7 1500 MHz processor. Result:
AES-128 cbc with padlock is about 14 times faster compared to the C7
with padlock disabled.


regards,
Fabian
> hi,
> 
> I would like to run a 100Mb/s tor exit node, but I have issues wrt
> power consumption.
> 
> reading
> http://ortizaudio.blogspot.fr/2011/10/using-dreamplugs-crypto-chip.html
> it seems dreamplugs has *fast* aes-128-ecb.
> 
> Does anyone have any experience running a node based on cheap crypto
> chip (dreamplug, marvell 88F6282, sheeva-core, padlock, ...) ? What
> performance can I expect out of these ?
> 
> regards,
> sv
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