Hi, According to the VIA press release, their upcoming processor the VIA C5J Esther has support for NX protection, hardware instructions for RSA encryption/SHA, SSE2/SSE3 so it seems to be a pretty modern processor. http://www.via.com.tw/en/Digital%20Library/PR040518EPF.jsp However, according to the FC3test1 release page -- Native POSIX Thread Library (NPTL) support is unavailable in architectures below i686. This includes VIA, AMD K6, and i586 Pentium processors. This is known to be problematic for certain applications that rely on NPTL db4, such as subversion. -- I am not sure if the VIA C5J Esther is included in the above architectures. It would be nice if OpenSSL could be enhanced to support the hw montgomery multiplication instruction. The C5J Esther seems like an impressive CPU to run https servers if the SSL handshake/bulk encryption can be done with little CPU load Regards, Yusuf -- Yusuf Goolamabbas yusufg@xxxxxxxxxxxx
