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Re: [tor-relays] Does Tor work with Intel QAT acceleration

Am 12.04.2022 um 16:23 schrieb Bauruine:
The tor-spec [1] shows that Tor only uses RSA with 1024 Bit Keys and the ciphersuits only contain AES CBC and no AES GCM ones. I'm not an expert but it looks like it's not that useful for Tor. 

Yes and no? The limitation only apply tor protocol crypto itself afaik.
The tor does relay-to-relay in-protocol crypto inside an outer TLS channel, which the latter currently using GCM afaik: 

http://eweiibe6tdjsdprb4px6rqrzzcsi22m4koia44kc5pcjr7nec2rlxyad.onion/tpo/core/tor/-/blob/main/src/lib/tls/tortls_openssl.c#L415

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