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[08:53] schestowitzI think the curve25519 accelerator engine hit its goals it strapped enough of a rocket on our little turtle of a CPU so that itll be able render a chat UX while doing double-ratchets as a background task. I also definitely learned more about the algorithm, although admittedly I still have a lot more to learn if Im to say I truly understand elliptic curve cryptography. So far Ive just shaken hands with the [08:53] schestowitz fuzzy monsters hiding inside the curve25519 closet; they seem like decent chaps theyre not so scary, I just understand them poorly. A couple more interactions like this and we might even become friends. However, if I were to be honest, it probably wouldnt be worth it to port the curve25519 accelerator engine from its current FPGA format to an ASIC form. Mask-defined silicon would run at least 5x faster, and if we needed the compute [08:53] schestowitz power, wed probably find more overall system-level benefit from a second CPU core than a domain-specific accelerator (and hopefully by then the multi-core stuff in Litex will have sufficiently stabilized that itd be a relatively low-risk proposition to throw a second CPU into a chip tape-out).