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[Question #225826]: AES-NI support for OpenSSL

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From: Jason Campbell <question225826@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2013 01:41:14 -0000
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New question #225826 on IUS Community Project:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ius/+question/225826

I'm not sure where the right place to ask this is, but would it be possible to have AES-NI support added to the OpenSSL package?  This greatly accelerates AES ciphers on Intel processors Westmere or newer, making it faster than RC4.

Supported processors:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES_instruction_set#Supporting_CPUs

Unscientific benchmark here to show the difference:
http://zombe.es/post/4078724716/openssl-cipher-selection

It is supported in the official RHEL package, but unfortunately it doesn't support TLSv1.1/1.2 like the IUS one does.

Thanks

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