I see a number of changes in the 4.8 changelog referencing additions of AES-NI and AES-GCM. This PDF from Intel extolls the (rather astounding) virtues for linux:
http://edc.intel.com/Link.aspx?id=3754 Has anyone published any performance numbers for this on OpenBSD running on fancy new Intel processors? Google searches are coming up with nothing. There are a few obvious linux-specific enhancements there, but I'm hoping the OpenBSD support comes close to the single-thread performance. Line-rate GigE at 500 byte packets would be pretty pleasing by itself. --Doug
