Re: [PATCH -mm crypto] AES: remove crypto_fl_tab and replacecrypto_il_tab with isb_tab

[Huang, Ying]

On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 12:42 +0800, Huang, Ying wrote:
> Remove crypto_fl_tab from aes implementation. Because mix_col(1,n) = n,
> all information in cryto_fl_tab is in crypto_ft_tab too.
> crypto_il_tab is replaced by isb_tab, the byte shift is done
> during decryption.
> 
> These changes reduce the encryption cache footprint to 50% and
> decryption cache footprint to 53.1%. The code size is increased
> slightly. On my Intel CORE micro-architecture CPU, there is almost no
> performance penalty.

Similar optimization is used by OpenSSL too. So I think this is
reasonable.

Best Regards,
Huang Ying


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