[Openswan Users] Hardware encryption support - VIA PadLock?

[Nate Carlson]

On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Ken Bantoft wrote:
> > I've got one on the way; my firewall at home needs an upgrade anyways. 
> > It'll be interesting to see how it works.
> 
> Keep me in the loop... this is the 3rd hardware accel. that might be *SWAN 
> compatible.  And the others are quite a bit more expensive.

Yeah, I'm hoping this'll work; it'd be great for site-site VPN's.  
According to VIA, their Padlock on the 1ghz processor can do AES 8 times
faster than a P4 3ghz - we'll see.

I just ordered a processor; can't find anyone that will guarantee that
it's the proper stepping, but I found a place that says they get fresh
stock straight from VIA, so hopefully it will be. If not, I spent $33 for
a 1ghz Socket 370 processor - not too bad of a deal in any case.  :)

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