Comment by tgsovlerkhgsel
4 months ago
Wireguard uses ChaCha20, which to my knowledge neither has nor requires HW acceleration to be fast.
4 months ago
Wireguard uses ChaCha20, which to my knowledge neither has nor requires HW acceleration to be fast.
> However, the software performance [of wireguard] is far below the speed of wire.
https://github.com/chili-chips-ba/wireguard-fpga
It's faster on CPUs without dedicated hardware than AES, but that doesn't mean that it's faster than fixed-function AES hardware.