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Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 19:10:58 +1100 (EST)
From: James Morris <jmorris@intercode.com.au>
To: Niels Provos <provos@citi.umich.edu>
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Subject: Re: cryptographic acceleration [Re: What's left over.]
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On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, Niels Provos wrote:

> On the other hand, there are some Ethernet cards that support inline
> encryption so that not additional bus bandwidth is required to do both
> public and symmetric key cryptography.

And this is precisely the case for which we have no detailed documentation 
at this stage.  Hardware which does this includes the Intel PRO/100S and 
3Com 3CR990.

Any assistance from vendors in getting documentation on the crypto aspects 
of cards would be highly appreciated.


- James
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