[tor-relays] Declining Relay Usage

[Roman Mamedov]

On Mon, 18 Dec 2023 10:03:01 +0000
George Hartley via tor-relays <tor-relays at lists.torproject.org> wrote:

> lscpu | grep aes
> 
> If the command returns nothing, sadly your CPU does not support hardware AES
> acceleration, or if you run your OS in a VM, then the VM operator likely did
> not set "host" as CPU model.
> 
> If however the command does output a list of flags, with aes highlighted in
> red (depends on SSH client), then you can safely add the following line to
> your nodes configuration file:
> 
> > HardwareAccel 1

I don't think this is necessary to make it use AES. It would use that
automatically. HardwareAccel is needed only to enable some external OpenSSL
acceleration engines, such as the defunct "VIA Padlock".

-- 
With respect,
Roman