How to Run High Capacity Tor Relays
John Case
case at SDF.LONESTAR.ORG
Wed Sep 1 21:28:02 UTC 2010
> Also, afaik, zero people in the wild are actively running Tor with any
> crypto accelerator. May be a very painful process... I'm not really
> interested in documenting it unless its proven to scale by actual use.
> I want this document to end up with tested and reproduced results
> only. You know, Science. Not computerscience ;)
There was a _very_ interesting, long and detailed discussion of this about
1 year ago on this list.
I really do think some subset of that discussion should be included in
your "lore", at the very least the parts pertaining to the built-in crypto
acceleration included in recent sparc CPUs, which appear to be the only
non-painful way to make this work.
My impression was that a significant boost could be had by accelerating
openssl using this on-chip features...
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