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by dijit 241 days ago
How is TLS negotiation and transport on older hardware (with no AES-NI hardware acceleration)?

I remember it used to be expensive as heck to do TLS back in 2014~, so much so that we bought accelerator cards and segmented "secure" servers so that load wouldn't hit the ordinary browsing of our sites...

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"How is TLS negotiation and transport on older hardware (with no AES-NI hardware acceleration)?"

I use a TLS forward proxy. With today's overpowered hardware, I can even run the proxy on an old "phone" (but I cant run NetBSD^1)

This allows the older computers I own to use plaintext HTTP like the good old days

1. Despite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-Mobile_Sidekick