Re: softraid crypto seem really slower than plain ffs

[Stefan Sperling]

On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 07:32:49PM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
> I'm not a developer but I know 6.1 moved to a shiny new side channel 
> resistant AES. I seem to remember Theo saying that if it is that slow
> then even worse; people won't use encryption at all and if they need
> side channel resistance then they could get a processor with AES-NI
> etc.. Not sure if it was reverted in the end or not.
 
It was reverted.