On Tue March 9 2010, Lou Picciano wrote: > Luis, > > > I feel your pain. We were also recently working through the decision tree on > purchasing 'purpose-specific' encryption hardware for our servers; we were > talked out of it by people on this list and elsewhere, given advances in > CPUs. > > > One specific advancement is the AES-specific instruction set in the 2010 > Intel Core™ processor family; an excerpt: > > > Intel® AES instructions are a new set of instructions available beginning > with the all new 2010 Intel® Core™ processor family based on the 32nm Intel® > microarchitecture codename Westmere. These instructions enable fast and > secure data encryption and decryption, using the Advanced Encryption Standard > (AES) which is defined by FIPS Publication number 197. Since AES is currently > the dominant block cipher, and it is used in various protocols, the new > instructions are valuable for a wide range of applications. > > > Here's the link: > http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-advanced-encryption-standard-aes-instructions-set/ > > > Obviously, I can't speak to any prospective implementation OpenSSL might come > up with, but one can only hope... ? >
The VIA processors have had AES instructions for awhile now, and OpenSSL recognizes it as an "Engine" - So it should not be too big a stretch to think that the Intel instructions will get the same treatment. Mike > > Lou Picciano > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz" <luis.daniel.lu...@gmail.com> > To: openssl-users@openssl.org > Sent: Tuesday, March 9, 2010 4:17:10 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: Broadcom & OpenSSL support > > Hi SSL'es > > We are planning to buy this hardware > > http://www.broadcom.com/products/BCM800 > > It claims to run under linux, how ever after linux loads its module. I wonder > to know if openssl will take advantege of it? > > Regards, > > LD > ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
