Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 19:29:20 +0000 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cryptodev HW (aesni) vs software Message-ID: <20151120192920.119bbf91@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20151120200325.2baade9c@nonamehost.local> References: <20151120200325.2baade9c@nonamehost.local>
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On Fri, 20 Nov 2015 20:03:25 +0200 Ivan Klymenko wrote: > Hello everybody. > What's happening? > > root@nonamehost:/ # openssl speed -evp aes-128-cbc -elapsed -engine > cryptodev engine "cryptodev" set. I'm not really sure what the actual question was, but IIRC you shouldn't load cryptodev if the CPU has AES-NI because it gets used by default and it's faster to allow openssl to use AES-NI instructions directly.
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