Show HN: multiaes – hardware-accelerated, constant-time AES, two-file drop-in

Posted by lemaudit 1 day ago

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Comment by happyPersonR 1 day ago

Are there any benchmarks for this? Maybe a good next step :)

Comment by lemaudit 22 hours ago

Nothing formal. I've compared the NI path against OpenSSL's on my slow computer and got ~252 MB/s whereas OpenSSL's is ~579 MB/s. (tested on 128 bit key size ECB mode with input length 128 bits). So I am aware of a bottleneck I've been working on.

The software fallback is optimized for multiblock encryption and it's constant time so I haven't benchmarked it but could. If people prefer using it for just single block encrypt/decrypt I could change things around.

I am planning on adding a benchmark target shortly