pfsense: Who needs AES-NI? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by skipmorrow@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I'm thinking about building a box for pfsense. Looking at hardware options and I see a pretty significant difference in price when comparing hardware with and without AES-NI. I don't necessarily think I'll need AES. The way I understand it, AES is for using VPN that is somehow running on the router??? I mean, my wife and I both use VPNs on our work computers so we can reach our work networks, but that isn't using any encryption features on my router, is it?? Or am I not understanding?

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[-] ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com 4 points 7 months ago

It's for encryption and decryption so only valid for VPN tunnels initiated by pfsense. Not a needed feature by any means if you don't selfhost stuff and want to setup VPN tunnels and run a lot of traffic through (like say media through Jellyfin)

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