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     have faster chips (even Hifn now has a faster but more expensive      have faster chips (even Hifn now has a faster but more expensive
     chip).  Peak performance with 3DES SHA1 ESP is around 64Mbit/sec.      chip).  Peak performance with 3DES SHA1 ESP is around 64Mbit/sec.
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       After 2.9 shipped, support was added for the Hifn 7951 chip, a
       simplified version of the 7751 which adds a public key accelerator
       (unsupported) and a random number generator (supported).  Cards
       were donated by <a href="http://www.soekris.com/">Soekris Engineering</a>.
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       After 3.0 shipped, support was added for the Hifn 7811 chip, a
       faster version of the 7751 (around 130Mbit/s) with a random number
       generator.  A card was donated by <a href="http://www.gtgi.com/">GTGI</a>.
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     (As an aside, Hifn was a difficult company to deal with; they even      (As an aside, Hifn was a difficult company to deal with; they even
     threatened to sue us over our non-USA reverse engineering of their      threatened to sue us over our non-USA reverse engineering of their
     crypto unlock algorithm).      crypto unlock algorithm).
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