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, mostly.
On x86, the assembly code uses the CPUID instruction (see the
OPENSSL_ia32cap.pod manpage) to determine if various instructions (AES, SSE,
MMX, etc) are available and will use them if so. For other processors, similar
tests are performed if at all possible.
I have added this to the FAQ
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From: - JinsongJi [mailto:jjsb...@hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2017 9:09 AM
To: openssl-users@openssl.org
Subject: [openssl-users] Does openssl pick low level interface or high level
interface to do encrypt?
Hi,
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?
Does any user/application always pick classic implementation for AES operation
regardless of AES-NI improves speed much?
Is there any document about this interface selection?
Thanks,
Jinsong
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