On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 8:55 AM, Julien Vehent <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> AES-NI is fast enough that we shouldn't have to care:
>
> $ openssl speed -evp aes-256-gcm
> type 16 bytes 64 bytes 256 bytes 1024 bytes 8192 bytes
> aes-256-gcm 385250.93k 983154.24k 2011460.35k 2620519.76k 3048865.79k
Intel's low-end CPUs don't have AES-NI. For example, Pentium G3258
("Anniversary Edition"), launched in Q2 2014, doesn't have AES-NI:
http://ark.intel.com/products/82723/Intel-Pentium-Processor-G3258-3M-Cache-3_20-GHz
Neither does this Pentium model, launched in Q1 2015:
http://ark.intel.com/products/87358/Intel-Pentium-Processor-G3470-3M-Cache-3_60-GHz
Wan-Teh
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