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Subject: Re: gbde performance question 
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In message <200305241322.37065.chris@pennasoft.com>, Chris BeHanna writes:
>On Tuesday 20 May 2003 08:29, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> In message <20030520120114.U60060@daneel.foundation.hs>, Heiko Schaefer 
>writes:
>> >but i still don't see why the processes that are named gbde-something
>> >would take up _that_ much cpu time ... does that look reasonable and
>> >explicable to you?
>>
>> The crypto work _does_ take time.  I am only just starting to measure
>> how much for my GBDE paper now, so I don't really have anything
>> to compare your numbers with.
>
>    Would hardware crypto or hardware RNG help?

Eventually it will, but right now I have no access to any AES hw, so
I have put off integrating support for hw-assisted crypto until at
point in time where I can actually test it.

Sam says he may know of some AES able hardware in the pipeline, I'm
keeping my hopes pinned on that.

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