hardware crypto and SSL?

Jonathan M. Bresler jmb at bresler.org
Wed Oct 22 13:49:35 PDT 2003


Radware makes a box called the CT100 that we are evaluating where I work.
The box is supposed to perform precisely this function.  Give me a shout
if you are interested in hearing more about it.

jmb

On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Mike Tancsa wrote:

> 
> Dont know about http ssl, but I am using the cards from Soekris for my 
> backup server.  As long as you use 3des for encryption, it does make a big 
> difference CPU wise.   The next generation cards supposedly have AES and 
> public key generation, but I dont think the driver will do the public key 
> stuff. The safe driver says it does, but I dont know where to get such cards.
> 
>          ---Mike
> 
> At 11:27 PM 21/10/2003, Bill Swingle wrote:
> >Is anyone successfully using some sort of hardware crypto solution to
> >combat the overhead of SSL in http transactions? I'd love to hear
> >anything good or bad about this.
> >
> >-Bill
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