On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 08:26:07AM +0200, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote:
>
> Actually this is the reason of the ecb(cipher-null) comparison. To  
> emulate the case of a hardware offload device. I tried to make that  
> clear in the text, but may not be. If you see AF_ALG performs really bad  
> on that case. It performs better when a software or a padlock  
> implementation of AES is involved (which as you say it is a useless  
> use-case).

It's meaningless because such devices operate at a rate much
lower than the figures you give.

Cheers,
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