Profit 
... haha. For now I'm happy with the result in porting / patching a driver from an older kernel / different project to Lede. Now trying to apply what I learned and port the proprietary drivers for Wifi and Ethernet (with hopefully HW-NAT). Priority on the Wifi since the open source MT76 still gives a lot of problems. Hopefully that will be sorted quickly, bug until then we can have options to use "less" open drivers.
As for the AES, hoping to benefit from it using OpenVPN.