On 02.01.23 17:57, aghart...@gmail.com wrote:
select pgp_sym_encrypt(data::text, 'pwd') --default to aes128
from generate_series('2022-01-01'::timestamp, '2022-12-31'::timestamp,
'1 hour'::interval) data
vs
select pgp_sym_encrypt(data::text, 'pwd','cipher-algo=bf') -- blowfish
from generate_series('2022-01-01'::timestamp, '2022-12-31'::timestamp,
'1 hour'::interval) data
In my test both queries execution is similar....aes-128 was expected
about 5 time faster.
So, why?
Pgcrypto use OpenSSL as backend, so, does it explicit force software aes
calculation instead of AES-NI cpu ones?
I suspect it is actually using AES hardware support, but all the other
overhead of pgcrypto makes the difference not noticeable.
