> It is only relatively recently that computer hardware has gotten powerful enough that cryptography isn’t a serious bottleneck for production systems. Or we'v

> It is only relatively recently that computer hardware has gotten powerful enough that cryptography isn’t a serious bottleneck for production systems. Or we've had enough "spare" transistors and die space to devote some to crypto, hashing, and checksumming instructions. I remember the splash Sun made when they announced on-die crypto hardware in 2007 (as well as on-die 10 GigE): * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UltraSPARC_T2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UltraSPARC_T2 * PDF: https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solaris/documentation/819-5782-150147.pdf https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solaris/do...