On 09/01/2011 08:43 AM, Herbert Xu wrote:
On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 08:26:07AM +0200, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote:
Actually this is the reason of the ecb(cipher-null) comparison. To
emulate the case of a hardware offload device. I tried to make that
clear in the text, but may not be. If you see AF_ALG performs really bad
on that case. It performs better when a software or a padlock
implementation of AES is involved (which as you say it is a useless
use-case).
It's meaningless because such devices operate at a rate much
lower than the figures you give.
Have you actually measured that?
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