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[โ€“] pelya@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yup, Cortex A7 has some crypto HW acceleration with Neon extensions

https://developer.arm.com/Processors/Cortex-A7

But routers typically won't decrypt any traffic, they just route it. Bus, RAM and cache speed is more of a bottleneck.

[โ€“] magikmw@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

Yeah I'm thinking more in terms of UTM. It's been a project of mine to have an enterprise-like network while using prosumer or SMB hardware. Always looking for efficient upgrades.