Re: AES leaks, cgd ciphers, and vector units in the kernel

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 10:20:46AM +0100, Sevan Janiyan wrote:
> 
> 
> On 19/06/2020 07:37, Martin Husemann wrote:
> > the other two are quite old (probably on the border for your 10 years
> > estimate, maybe even slightly older and I'm suprised too, usualy
> > amd64 hardware is not that good long term and forces itself being
> > replaced way earlier).
> AES-NI came in with the Westmere CPUs
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westmere_(microarchitecture)

And Oct 2012 (Piledriver) or May 2013 (Jaguar) for AMD cpus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_accelerated_processing_units

Which both means there is still lots of amd64 hardware out there that
just does not support the instructions.

Martin