Re: AES-NI: slower than aes-generic?

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> If we implement something which happens to result in a 2 minute stall
> in boot times, the danger is that a clueless engineer at Sony, or LGE,
> or Motorola, or BMW, or Toyota, etc, will "fix" the problem without
> telling anyone about what they did, and we might not notice right away
> that the fix was in fact catastrophically bad.

This is an non-trivial threat. +1 for recognizing it.

I know of one VM hypervisor used in US Financial that was effectively
doing "One thing you should not do is the following..." from
http://lwn.net/Articles/525459/.

Jeff
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