[117812] in Cypherpunks
New 3Com IPSec card
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Sat Sep 11 05:07:29 1999
Date: 11 Sep 1999 08:47:21 -0000
Message-ID: <19990911084721.7771.qmail@hades.rpini.com>
From: Anonymous <nobody@remailer.ch>
To: cypherpunks@algebra.com
Reply-To: Anonymous <nobody@remailer.ch>
Not at all. It's pretty much an extension of other 3Com technology
with a custom ASIC that does the encryption. The software is
carried over and adapted from similar non-encrypting NICs with the
major change being the IPSEC capability.
By the way, lab tests showed that it could do 3DES encryption
at 95 mbits/sec, almost fast enough to keep up with the idealized
100 baseT speeds, and way more than is necessary to support a
T1/E1 connection.
The board is supposed to go for somewhat over $100.
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"Kurt Buff" <kurtbuff@lightmail.com> wrote:
Looks like this is going to be a growth area:
http://www.intel.com/network/white_papers/ipsecurity/ipsec.pdf
I wonder if the Intel Pro/100 Intelligent Server adapter plays any
part in this? That's the one with the i960 processor on it...
Kurt
- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-cypherpunks@toad.com
[mailto:owner-cypherpunks@toad.com]On Behalf Of Steve Schear
Sent: Friday, September 10, 1999 09:16
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: New 3Com IPSec card
http://www.3com.com/products/dsheets/3cr990.html
