Re: [PATCH 2/2] Support for VIA PadLock crypto engine
From: Jari Ruusu
Date: Thu May 13 2004 - 07:59:43 EST
Michal Ludvig wrote:
> My padlock driver can be used for anything that uses CryptoAPI and in fact
> it speeds things a lot (see a simple disk-based benchmark at
> http://www.logix.cz/michal/dl/padlock.xp).
Cryptoapi version of AES is slowest implementation of AES that I know of.
For speed tests, please compare against more modern implementation.
Below is one old AES128 speed test that I ran on my 300 MHz test box:
KERNEL IMPLEMENTATION MODE WRITE MiB/s READ MiB/s
2.6.1 cryptoloop single-key 5.21 4.08
2.6.1 loop-AES single-key 9.52 7.56
2.6.1 loop-AES multi-key(MD5 IV) 7.67 6.35
2.4.22aa1 loop-AES single-key 10.55 10.16
2.4.22aa1 loop-AES multi-key(MD5 IV) 8.75 8.13
The cryptoloop implementation is busted in more than one way, so it is
useless for security needs:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=107419912024246&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=107719798631935&w=2
--
Jari Ruusu 1024R/3A220F51 5B 4B F9 BB D3 3F 52 E9 DB 1D EB E3 24 0E A9 DD
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/