Hi, Just one last thought: it will be on all *future* systems ?
Cheers, - markku Dr. Markku-Juhani O. Saarinen <m...@iki.fi> US +1 (424) 666 2713 On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 11:00 PM, Thor Lancelot Simon <t...@panix.com> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 09:54:09PM +0100, Roland C. Dowdeswell wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 08:23:11PM +0200, Markku-Juhani Olavi Saarinen wrote: >> > >> >> > Agreed. AES is worse if you don't have AES-NI. >> > >> > It has been there on all new systems purchased in some last 3 years, >> > so I would *guess* that it would be > 50% of systems fielded out >> > there. >> >> It hasn't been there on all new systems purchased in the last 3 >> years. My laptop is about 3 years old and doesn't have AES-NI. >> Neither does my file server (1.5 years old, AMD CPU, IIRC.) nor my >> mobile phone, iPad, last year's MacBook Air, etc. > > So, I'm typing this on "last year's MacBook Air". It does have AES-NI. > > Unfortunately, the virtual machines on this laptop that I use for most > NetBSD development don't expose the AES-NI instructions to guests, even > when doing hardware assisted virtualization. Not RDRAND neither, for > that matter. And of course, this *is* NetBSD, so assuming all the world's > this year's latest x86 model from a particular manufacturer is not the > greatest idea, either... > > Thor