hello,
I am really impressed about this short response time . . . I had to test
immediately. Here are the results:

AES with hardware support:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> time openssl speed -evp aes-128-cbc -engine ibmca
engine "ibmca" set.
...
The 'numbers' are in 1000s of bytes per second processed.
type             16 bytes     64 bytes    256 bytes   1024 bytes   8192
bytes
aes-128-cbc      43737.21k   126067.54k   237307.31k   304215.72k
330134.87k

AES without hardware support:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> time openssl speed -evp aes-128-cbc
...
The 'numbers' are in 1000s of bytes per second processed.
type             16 bytes     64 bytes    256 bytes   1024 bytes   8192
bytes
aes-128-cbc      22281.76k    24300.42k    25061.63k    25213.95k
25266.86k

DES with hardware support:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> time openssl speed -evp des-cbc -engine ibmca
engine "ibmca" set.
...
The 'numbers' are in 1000s of bytes per second processed.
type             16 bytes     64 bytes    256 bytes   1024 bytes   8192
bytes
des-cbc          46207.55k   154391.40k   371894.95k   583389.53k
694714.37k

DES without hardware support:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> time openssl speed -evp des-cbc
...
The 'numbers' are in 1000s of bytes per second processed.
type             16 bytes     64 bytes    256 bytes   1024 bytes   8192
bytes
des-cbc          17966.35k    20047.34k    20651.61k    20805.97k
20851.37k

This shows that there is really an effect using the engine and the
influence gets clear with reasonable blocksizes.
(According my original tests, I have expected the response that "des" and
"aes" switches use the low
level ciphers directly and these always use the builtin software versions.
At least I can redirect
with EVP to ENGINE.) I will check the description, documentation and man
page tomorrow. Thanks.

Kind regards,
Manfred Gnirss,
TMCC Technical Sales Support,
eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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