Re: [openssl-users] Does openssl pick low level interface or high level interface to do encrypt?

2017-08-10 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 01:08:47PM +, - JinsongJi wrote: > For one simple operation: openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -salt -in foo.txt -out > foo.enc > Does openssl pick classic implementation or AES-NI implementation to do this > encrypt? The enc(1) command uses the EVP API to access the requeste

Re: [openssl-users] Does openssl pick low level interface or high level interface to do encrypt?

2017-08-10 Thread Salz, Rich via openssl-users
What OpenSSL does is not necessarily obvious. The INSTALL document talks about the no-asm configuration option. Details about what the assembler code does in terms of optimization are only available by reading the source code comments in the various Perl files that generate the assembler, most