Jim, > 1. As Sean pointed out, the AES instructions are common on Intel > processors. Not so for AMD, however, which only supports AES in their high > end server chips. My HP AMD mini-tower, for example, doesn't have the > AES instruction set.
It seems that AMD might be exaggerating their support to AES. Though AMD (http://www.amd.com/Documents/Security_021.pdf#search=AES%252Dni) says: "AMD products beginning with those based on the “Bulldozer” CPU core, including the “Zambezi” desktop processor and the “Interlagos” server processor, have AES instructions." FYI, The Bulldozer CPU architecture product were released in 2011. My review of the AMD Server processors specs ***did not find a single chip with AES support*** (even the high end 6200 and 6300 series CPUs -- http://products.amd.com/en-us/search/CPU/AMD-Opteron™/AMD-Opteron™-6300-Series-Processor/6386-SE/56) Sean ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel
