I did a little more research on SSL accelerators this afternoon,
and put together a web page on the topic. See
http://www.kegel.com/ssl.html
I list a bunch of products and several reviews on that page.
Here are the vendors that make PCI cards that support Linux:
Phobos makes a transparant SSL proxy thingy for $1900
that might do nicely, and wouldn't require any software
changes. It can live in a Linux box, but it just gets
power and configuration from the PCI bus; all data goes
via ethernet only, not the PCI bus.
nCipher makes a fast card that supposedly supports both
Solaris and Linux. It probably goes for a little more than
the Phobos card, and can handle 75 or so SSL connections / second.
IBM makes a well-supported crypto coprocessor, but it's based on
a 486, and you just have to wonder :-)
- Dan
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