Re:PfSense 2.5 and AES-NI
by givemefive on Monday May 01, 2017 @02:30PM
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I don't know. What is your reasoning? I don't really understand why you'd want to force people to upgrade HW when they don't need to.
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There is a difference between a design decision reasonable people can disagree, even forcefully, about, and a design decision that is actually a deceptive attempt to get people to buy new hardware.
They spelled out the reasoning in the post:
“in order to support the increased cryptographic loads that we see as part of pfSense verison 2.5, pfSense Community Edition version 2.5 will include a requirement that the CPU supports AES-NI”
You may disagree with that but it's intellectually dishonest to argue as if they didn't provide clear, technically defensible rationale, especially at a time when much of the industry has been moving to hardware offload.