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Re:Wire – Modern Communications Network by moheeb on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @07:24PM (#8697208)
Back in the day it was often optional due to the additional processing that it required.
Re:Wire – Modern Communications Network by derf_ on Thursday December 04, 2014 @11:58AM (#8700203)
That was indeed a thing in the days before AES-NI or simply having 1.4 billion transistors on a chip.

But in my day we've been spending years fighting this sort of short-sightedness: https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/rtcweb/current/msg0274...