Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] crypto: arm64/ghash - add NEON accelerated fallback for 64-bit PMULL

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On Wed, Jul 05, 2017 at 12:43:19AM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> Implement a NEON fallback for systems that do support NEON but have
> no support for the optional 64x64->128 polynomial multiplication
> instruction that is part of the ARMv8 Crypto Extensions. It is based
> on the paper "Fast Software Polynomial Multiplication on ARM Processors
> Using the NEON Engine" by Danilo Camara, Conrado Gouvea, Julio Lopez and
> Ricardo Dahab (https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01506572), but has been reworked
> extensively for the AArch64 ISA.
> 
> On a low-end core such as the Cortex-A53 found in the Raspberry Pi3, the
> NEON based implementation is 4x faster than the table based one, and
> is time invariant as well, making it less vulnerable to timing attacks.
> When combined with the bit-sliced NEON implementation of AES-CTR, the
> AES-GCM performance increases by ~2x (from 58 to 30 cycles per byte).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>

This patch does not apply against cryptodev.

Cheers,
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