Dear list, is there any hardware acceleration card (something computing AES at hardware-speed) for the i386 platform, to be used with loop-AES? Do you know of any such card that could *possibly* be used, after a bit of driver work? I'm looking for something on the cheap side, to plug into my modest system, otherwise I would rather upgrade the whole computer. Ie. there's no point in a card that costs like an Opteron + mainboard + RAM, if you see my point. Another question: I see that loop-AES comes with an assembly core optimized for Pentium-2 processors. Do you think there would be any sensible speed gain in rewriting/modifying that core to take advantage of MMX, 3DNow and other such features offered by newer CPUs? Regards Toby PS: First things last :-) a big thank you to Jari and to everyone involved in loop-AES and preceding projects. It is a truly useful piece of software! - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
