On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 07:17:47PM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> FWIW, I don't think hardware tls acceleration is a particularly crucial thing
> for now. Outside of backups it's rare to have the symmetric encryption part of
> tls be the problem these days thanks, to the AES etc functions in most of the
> common CPUs.
>
> I don't plan to work on this, but Thomas encouraged me to mention this on the
> list when I mention it to him.
So, I am aware of CPU AES acceleration and I assume PG uses that. It is
the public key certificate verification part of TLS that we don't use
hardware acceleration for, right?
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