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by unwind 3157 days ago
No mention of the actual hardware (processor) they've used. I guess the bill of materials would be funny (although of course I realize that the value is in their expertise and software etc).

The performance specs [1] say "HMAC-SHA-(1|256): ~4ms avg" which I guess is for 256 bits [2], compared to [3] which list a 6th gen Skylake 3.1 GHz doing it at 535 MB/s.

[1]: https://www.yubico.com/products/yubihsm/

[2]: But I have no idea, perhaps this is a stupid interpretation, in which case I'll turn around and blame them for being unclear.

[3]: https://www.cryptopp.com/benchmarks.html