"Daniel P. Berrange" <[email protected]> writes:

> FYI, that benchmark program is somewhat misleading, because it directly
> uses the openssl AES APIs, which always go to the generic software
> version, and thus make openssl look real slow by comparison. To exercise
> the AESNI impls in openssl, it would need to be rewritten to use the
> openssl EVP APIs which dynamically choose the best impl.

Thanks, I wasn't aware of that. (It's more than a decade since I last
wrote any real code using ssleay/openssl).

Would you like to help fix that?

Regards,
/Niels

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