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Don't modern NICs do a lot of the same, too?
by nine_k 1y ago
Don't modern NICs do a lot of the same, too?
- tyingq 1y agoSometimes it goes the other direction. PCI SSL accelerator cards were a thing for a long time before CPUs got faster, got various crypto acceleration opcodes, web servers rewrote SSL logic in ASM, etc.
- lillecarl 1y agoThe fancy Mellanox NVIDIA Connect-X cards have kTLS support which offloads encryption to the NIC, Netflix has blogged about how they use it to send 100 Gbps encrypted traffic of a single box (Their OpenConnect infrastructure is really cool). Old is new again :)