AES-NI useful?

Chris Smart mail at christophersmart.com
Wed Mar 16 06:01:20 UTC 2011


Anyone know how useful AES-NI are in new Intel CPUs for encrypting
one's hard drive? Is it well supported in the kernel, and does the
hardware implementation make a lot of difference (I'm guessing so, as
that's the point, but can't find any specific references..)

-c


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