Re: Crypto hardware performance

2007-12-04 Thread Dave Jones
On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 16:33:29 -0600, Patrick O'Keefe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I understand that the CPACF instructions are just that - single instructions. But so are AR, MVCL, and CFC - quite a range. (I'm guessing that CFC takes a long time to execute. It's description takes a long time to

Crypto hardware performance

2007-12-03 Thread Patrick O'Keefe
Is there any doc comparing performance of crypto functions using the encryption hardware vs the same functions using software? I've seen a paper showing the performance of both CPACF and CEX2 based on block sizes (very big differences) but not compared to with software-only. I've also seen a

Re: Crypto hardware performance

2007-12-03 Thread Ernest Nachtigall
On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 12:58:53 -0600, Patrick O'Keefe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any doc comparing performance of crypto functions using the encryption hardware vs the same functions using software? I've seen a paper showing the performance of both CPACF and CEX2 based on block sizes (very

Re: Crypto hardware performance

2007-12-03 Thread Patrick O'Keefe
On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 15:46:59 -0600, Ernest Nachtigall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you very much for joining the discussion. I'm afaid you're going to be swamped with questions for a while. ... Fo CPACF, is is a single OP code so beats software routines thousands to one (TDES ASM routine has