# About the OpenFHE Hardware Acceleration category

**URL:** <https://openfhe.discourse.group/t/about-the-openfhe-hardware-acceleration-category/19>\
**Category:** OpenFHE Hardware Acceleration\
**Tags:** hexl\
**Created:** [July 11, 2022, 7:30pm UTC](https://openfhe.discourse.group/t/about-the-openfhe-hardware-acceleration-category/19 "2022-07-11T19:30:24Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 11, 2022, 7:30pm UTC](https://openfhe.discourse.group/t/about-the-openfhe-hardware-acceleration-category/19/1 "2022-07-11T19:30:24Z")

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Discussions around various hardware backends should be under this umbrella.

One such supported backend is [Intel’s Homomorphic Encryption Acceleration Library(HEXL)](https://github.com/intel/hexl)