On 5 December 2013 23:32, John <da_audioph...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I recently became aware of aes-ni and found the linked articles. My CPU > supports this, but it seems (assuming the advice in the linked pages is > accurate) that openssl does not have it enabled. What am I missing? I am > running Arch Linux x86_64 and an using the repo provided package for openssl. > > % openssl engine > (rsax) RSAX engine support > (rdrand) Intel RDRAND engine > (dynamic) Dynamic engine loading support > > Links: > > http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/AES_NI > http://datacenteroverlords.com/2011/09/07/aes-ni-pimp-your-aes >
The information in the linked pages is out of date for the latest versions of openssl (>= 1.0.1). For these versions AES-NI does not work via an engine and will not show up in the openssl engine command. You are probably already running aes ni without realising it. See here for a discussion: http://openssl.6102.n7.nabble.com/having-a-lot-of-troubles-trying-to-get-AES-NI-working-td44285.html Matt ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
