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Comment by sharktheone

13 hours ago

I always thought that just kernel mode makes it better.

Didn't know that WG can't use hardware crypto accelerators. I hope it will someday

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iscoelho  13 hours ago

It's only half the story. WireGuard uses chacha20-poly1305 and certain implementations can still achieve 100Gbps. Hardware acceleration is the path to 400Gbps and power efficiency though.

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