[PATCH 06/10] Add parallelized AES-NI ECB decryption

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Mon Nov 26 10:19:37 CET 2012


On Fri, 23 Nov 2012 18:22, jussi.kivilinna at mbnet.fi said:

> Parallelized ECB decryption is ~2.0x faster on Intel Sandy-Bridge (x86-64).

I do not see a reason to ever do more than once ECB block.  Use cases
for ECB are very limited and the use multi-block ECB is a strong
indication of a severe cryptographic flaw.  Thus your parallelized ECB
mode would only blow up the code.

I applied all your other patches to master.

Thanks,

  Werner

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