On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 08:26:07AM +0200, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote: > > Actually this is the reason of the ecb(cipher-null) comparison. To > emulate the case of a hardware offload device. I tried to make that > clear in the text, but may not be. If you see AF_ALG performs really bad > on that case. It performs better when a software or a padlock > implementation of AES is involved (which as you say it is a useless > use-case). It's meaningless because such devices operate at a rate much lower than the figures you give. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
