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TLS acceleration
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<p>TLS acceleration (formerly known as SSL acceleration) is a method of offloading processor-intensive <a href="/facts/Public-key_encryption/gowoFTxS">public-key encryption</a> for <a href="/facts/Transport_Layer_Security/pGy16TnA">Transport Layer Security</a> (TLS) and its predecessor Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) to a hardware accelerator. </p><p>Typically this means having a separate card that plugs into a <a href="/facts/PCI_slot/n6CGuFvP">PCI slot</a> in a computer that contains one or more <a href="/facts/Coprocessor/WsVXzAGo">coprocessors</a> able to handle much of the SSL processing. </p><p>TLS accelerators may use off-the-shelf <a href="/facts/CPU/Jxp1bqMV">CPUs</a>, but most use custom <a href="/facts/ASIC/tEd61Jen">ASIC</a> and <a href="/facts/RISC/aQbGM62p">RISC</a> chips to do most of the difficult computational work. </p>