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Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 14:13:59 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Brent D. Norris" <brent@biglinux.tccw.wku.edu>
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> Now, if the NIC were to integrate with OpenSSL and offload some of THAT
> donkey work... Just offloading DES isn't terribly useful, as Pavel says:
> apart from anything else, DES is a bit elderly now - SSH using 3DES or
> Blowfish etc... How dedicated is this card? Could it be used to offload
> other work?

Sorry my bad it is 3DES that they have on it, but I don't know how
in-grained it is in it.  Like I sad it just floated across my desk a few
days ago and it sounded like a cool bit of hardware.

Brent Norris

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