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The 64 bit AMD/Intel revolution

64-bit AMD/Intel revolution is going to change everything w.r.t to SSL. This is because these processors do SSL as fast as most custom hardware encryption chips. Take a look at these benchmarks.

Why they are so fast is simply because of their 64x64 multiply giving 128-bit result with a single CPU instruction. This is a relatively minor quirk of their CPU-instruction-set that gives a wopping boost to modular exponentiation operations - even a 4X improvement.

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