[squid-users] Hardware acceleration quest

[Amos Jeffries]

On 16/01/2026 05:38, Jonathan Lee wrote:
> We use to be able to use ssl engine and set it to something like devcrypto, is there anyway to utilize any hardware acceleration with new squid versions to access something like a SafeXcel or other newer crypto chips ?

The change in engine support is due to OpenSSLv3 changes. So current 
Squid build against older OpenSSLv1.x operate the same as before.

OpenSSL v3 uses "providers" instead of "engines". For now you can use 
openssl.conf to load any you can find with hardware acceleration.
  <https://docs.openssl.org/master/man5/config/#provider-configuration>


Cheers
Amos