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From: Zdenek Kaspar <zkaspar82@gmail.com>
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Dne 11.11.2010 11:49, Lasse Jensen napsal(a):
> Now, what are my options?
> 
> A quadcore CPU like the Q6600 would double the number of cores and
> theoretically double the throughput, but at cost of idle power. Note
> that the server is idle most of the time.
> A core i5. They have AES support in hardware, but it's an expensive
> solution and i'm not even sure it has Linux support.
> A PCI or PCIe based card, like the HiFN cards, but what card should i
> look for and what speed should i expect?
> Using the CUDA cores of my nVidia card, but no driver seems to exists
> for that.

Hmm, maybe another option is change from ie: aes-cbc-essiv:sha256 to
something faster, ie: aes-xts-plain[64] ?

HTH, Z.