Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 22:45:05 +0200 (CEST) From: Noses <noses@noses.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Status of encryption hardware support in FreeBSD Message-ID: <200107032045.f63Kj5V65865@proxon.bnc.net>
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In article <74.c9a1800.2873510f@aol.com> Bsdguru@aol.com wrote: > We can "picture" it, but such a system can't route a full 100mb/s ethernet, > so its fairly useless as a network device/router as is proposed here. You're a real guru. Right. ISDN gives you about raw 192 kBit/s (144 kBit/s on the S0 bus) to work on. Of course this can't be sent across a 10 MBit/s link. How could I forget that. The device might also get used in a battery powered secure mobile device for EFT applications so even AOL users who don't have anything but fairly useless credit cards won't starve if they have to shop for their groceries at a street market. The developers would probably have preferred an ARM based solution to start with (to quote Apple's Newton team: "it offered more mips per Wh") but its power balance is quite ok and the device is able to sort out itself whether it has to upload its accumulated transactions via serial or ethernet. Securely. No go and pray your "buy a bigger CPU and a hotter power supply" mantra somewhere else, it's getting tiring. Hand grenades aren't always the solution if all you try to is chasing a rabbit. Noses. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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