You may’ve seen in another post that I bought a Cavium Nitrox PX Series CN1620 Encryption offload board. It speeds up cryptographic operations commonly used in SSL and IPSec and offloads them to dedicated hardware. Linux developers have developed packages that allow us to take advantage of that. I was looking to get it working…
Category: OpenSSL
And just like that, Hardware Offload of SSL is working
I bought a Cavium Nitrox PX CN1620 Hardware Encryption offload board on ebay for like $20, which happens to be the same encryption offload board that a Cisco ASA 5585-X uses according to Cisco’s published specs, but you know those guys, they probably put 4 of the chips on their board. My card has one…