Kind of silly but I added support for the Wii's AES engine to #NetBSD today. The Wi-Fi stack can use it along with the cryptographic disk driver cgd(4).
A quick test of cgd(4) on a USB flash drive in AES-128-CBC mode shows 4.4 MB/s with the software implementation and 15 MB/s with hardware acceleration.
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2025/11/11/msg158907.html
Jared McNeill
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2025-11-11 21:43:26 UTC
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2025-11-11 21:43:26 UTCEvent JSON
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