On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 01:31:27PM -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: > It's not even clear to me that doing encryption is a wireless > co-processor is a win. It is almost certain that the host can perform > the same algorithms many times faster that an embedded wireless > processor. Moving encryption onto the host reduces the latency of the > connection. Well, maybe in some use cases like a modern desktop/laptop CPU with plenty of CPU power, but hardware acceleration for encryption is a huge win on most embedded systems (e.g., APs). And like I mentioned, some FullMAC designs do not even allow the encryption to be moved to the host.. -- Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
