Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 14 Jun 2001 14:13:59 -0500 (CDT) | From | "Brent D. Norris" <> | Subject | Re: 3com Driver and the 3XP Processor |
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> 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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