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if CPU time is the bottleneck ...

if CPU time is the bottleneck ...

Posted Feb 14, 2008 5:45 UTC (Thu) by jimparis (subscriber, #38647)
In reply to: if CPU time is the bottleneck ... by jimparis
Parent article: Multi-threaded OpenSSH

Sorry, I take that back.
It looks like if you configure --with-ssl-engine, OpenSSH will make the appropriate calls to
tell OpenSSL to use any available hardware crypto engines.  Nice.


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if CPU time is the bottleneck ...

Posted Feb 15, 2008 21:06 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Oh, is *that* what the OpenSSL `engine' stuff is for? I was wondering. 
(Not very hard, or I'd have looked at the source.)

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