I am generally not a fan of hardware accelerators of various sorts (thestereotypical example is hardware RAID cards). One of the reasonswhy is that historically (with one important exception), hardwareaccelerators generally just haven't been very good.

By not very good I mean that, well (generally):

• they haven't accelerated things very much.
• they haven't sped up actual important bottlenecks , except in rare circumstances.
• they almost invariably cost a significant amount of money.
• even when they manage to

Here's a recent Ubuntu security alert about KDE:

It was discovered that KDE did not properly handle certificateswith NULL characters in the Subject Alternative Name field of X.509certificates. An attacker could exploit this to perform a man inthe middle attack to view sensitive information or alter encryptedcommunications.

Let me translate this for you:

KDE put a text field in a C string without making sure that itactually was a C string. It turns out that it wasn't.

This is not just