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Re: AMD Geode LX Security Block (was Re: NetBSD on the Soekris net5501 status report)



On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 07:49:43AM -0400, Jared D. McNeill wrote:
> On 16-Jun-07, at 2:02 PM, Jared D. McNeill wrote:
> >FYI, I imported the glxsb(4) driver from OpenBSD for crypto assist and 
> >random number generation.
> 
> [For those of you just joining us, glxsb(4) is an AES/RNG security block 
> found in the AMD Geode LX family of processors]
> 
> Here's some performance numbers from openssl speed -evp aes-128-cbc, the 
> first using sw crypto, the second using glxsb(4):
> 
>       The 'numbers' are in 1000s of bytes per second processed.
>       type             16 bytes     64 bytes    256 bytes   1024 bytes   8192 
> bytes
>       aes-128-cbc       3712.69k     4057.03k     4176.33k     4206.79k     
> 4212.15k
>       aes-128-cbc       6680.49k    40836.42k   109531.96k   421803.47k 
> 15572756.43k

I'd suggest correctness verification. ~15GB/s seems to be waaaay too fast:)

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