Re: [RFC] DRBG: which shall be default?

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On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 09:56:42AM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote:
>
> The performance with ctr-aes-aesni on 64 bit is as follows -- I used my LRNG 
> implementation for testing for which I already have performance measurements:
> 
> - generating smaller lengths (I tested up to 128 bytes) of random numbers 
> (which is the vast majority of random numbers to be generated), the 
> performance is even worse by 10 to 15%
> 
> - generating larger lengths (tested with 4096 bytes) of random numbers, the 
> performance increases by 3%
> 
> Using ctr(aes-aesni) on 32 bit, the numbers are generally worse by 5 to 10%.

ctr(aes-aesni) is not the same thing as ctr-aes-aesni, the former
being just another way of doing what you were doing.  So did you
actually test the real optimised version which is ctr-aes-aesni?

Thanks,
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