Thanks for the information, that explains it.  The vpaes-x86 module
isn't included in the FIPS module. 

The CPU information is:

model name    : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU       Q 720  @ 1.60GHz




On 05/11/2012 09:07 AM, Andy Polyakov wrote:
>> Is AES performance expected to be much lower when using the FIPS 2.0
>> Object Module?
> Which CPU? You said it's non-AES-NI-capable, but is it SSSE3-capable? If
> yes, then see "related note" at
> http://www.mail-archive.com/openssl-dev@openssl.org/msg29827.html.
>
>> Below are the speed results when using AES-128-CBC with
>> and w/o the FIPS module. The host system is 32-bit Linux using gcc
>> 4.4.3.  The host system does not have AES-NI support.  No additional
>> config arguments were used other than 'fipscanisteronly' for building
>> the FIPS module and 'fips' for building 1.0.1b. 
>>
>> $ ./openssl speed -evp aes-128-cbc
>> OpenSSL 1.0.1b-fips 26 Apr 2012
>> type             16 bytes     64 bytes    256 bytes   1024 bytes   8192
>> bytes
>> aes-128-cbc      73739.96k    90031.86k    92865.76k    95791.08k   
>> 95761.47k
>>
>> $ ./openssl speed -evp aes-128-cbc
>> OpenSSL 1.0.1b 26 Apr 2012
>> compiler: gcc ... -DVPAES_ASM ...
>> type             16 bytes     64 bytes    256 bytes   1024 bytes   8192
>> bytes
>> aes-128-cbc     195185.75k   242239.91k   245629.15k   243471.00k  
>> 250167.68k
> Ratio suggests that it's Nehalem core...
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