On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 02:28:57PM +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > Another port of existing x86 SSE code to NEON, again both for arm64 and ARM. > > ChaCha20 is a stream cipher described in RFC 7539, and is intended to be > an efficient software implementable 'standby cipher', in case AES cannot > be used. > > This NEON implementation is almost 2x as fast as the generic C code > (measured on Cortex-A57 using the arm64 version) > > I'm aware that blkciphers are deprecated in favor of skciphers, but this > code (like the x86 version) uses the init and setkey routines of the generic > version, so it is probably better to port all implementations at once. > > Ard Biesheuvel (2): > crypto: arm64/chacha20 - implement NEON version based on SSE3 code > crypto: arm/chacha20 - implement NEON version based on SSE3 code Both patches applied. Thanks. -- 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
