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Comment by tgsovlerkhgsel

1 day ago

Wireguard uses ChaCha20, which to my knowledge neither has nor requires HW acceleration to be fast.

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lxgr  1 day ago

It's faster on CPUs without dedicated hardware than AES, but that doesn't mean that it's faster than fixed-function AES hardware.

fragmede  1 day ago

> However, the software performance [of wireguard] is far below the speed of wire.

https://github.com/chili-chips-ba/wireguard-fpga

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