Re: How can I enable aes-ni in openssl on Linux

2013-12-06 Thread John
> On Thursday, December 5, 2013 6:55 PM, Matt Caswell wrote: > The information in the linked pages is out of date for the latest 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 al

Re: How can I enable aes-ni in openssl on Linux

2013-12-06 Thread Alan Buxey
Hi Likely to be already using it and you can verify this by running some benchmarks - this is on a massive host and not virtualised platform? I guess a related question is how to ensure that those functions are used by openssl whenever possible. ... eg required openssl config in software that u

RE: How can I enable aes-ni in openssl on Linux

2013-12-05 Thread Kane Huang
As I know ,aesni is support after openssl 1.0.1? it is not an engine, and no kernel module need. It will be enable automatically when you use evp api. BR Kane -Original Message- From: owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org [mailto:owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org] On Behalf Of John Sent: Frida

Re: How can I enable aes-ni in openssl on Linux

2013-12-05 Thread Matt Caswell
On 5 December 2013 23:32, John 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