On Jun 27, 2011 9:24 PM, "David Magda" <dma...@ee.ryerson.ca> wrote: > AESNI is certain better than nothing, but RSA, SHA, and the RNG would be nice as well. It'd also be handy for ZFS crypto in addition to all the network IO stuff.
The most important reason for AES-NI might be not performance but defeating side-channel attacks. Also, really fast AES HW makes AES-based hash functions quite tempting. No, AES-NI is nothing to sneeze at. Nico --
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