> > 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 > > Send patches. It should need no kernel side help at all Theo has some patches to binutils in the OpenBSD tree for the VIA C3 AES stuff. This post mentions the speedups he gets http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=107577297024182&w=2 Binutils patches (I had passed the message to Jakub/jgarzik) a while back http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=107565842003015&w=2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=107565825802847&w=2 He's also mentioned that he is involved in the development of the VIA C5J Esther (which according to a message on openbsd-cvs list can do 800 RSA signs/sec at 1024 bits) http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=108977706022635&w=2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=108741009320134&w=2
