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WireGuard is now in Linus' tree
Modern CPUs are pretty close to being ASICs for ARX ciphers like ChaCha. Add, rotate, and XOR all have dedicated die area. Bernstein designed it that way.
Are there
any
hardware ASIC implementations of ChaCha or are they basically unnecessary?
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Are there any hardware ASIC implementations of ChaCha or are they basically unnecessary?