On Jul 23, 2015, at 20:58 , Jeffrey Walton <[email protected]> wrote:
> The issues with Clang's integrated assembler has got me thinking….

Me too... :-)


> Has anyone used NASM with Crypto++? Folks will eventually need an alternative 
> to utilize gear like AES-NI.

You can’t be serious - NASM is ancient, and I think hasn’t been maintained for 
half a decade.

You probably mean YASM? It understands AESNI (and other good stuff like RDRAND 
:).

> If we don't provide the ASM for a direct interface, then we will need to 
> stand-up an ENGINE interface and interface directly with CoreCrypto. 
> CoreCrypto may be our only choice on iOS (I have never seen a specification 
> for iOS's hardware/instruction set in this area).

Sounds interesting, and reasonable. 

> I was talking to Jack Lloyd, the author of Botan, and he was contemplating 
> the engine like interface into CoreCrypto.

Yeah… And OpenSSL went that route…

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