Changes between Version 20 and Version 21 of Gigabit_Networks_Linux
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- 06/27/11 15:29:44 (13 years ago)
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v20 v21 104 104 105 105 === Explanation === 106 The AES-NI patch for the OpenSSL 1.0 libraries not only increases performance for AES-NI capable CPUs but also for older CPUs. This can also be seen when running106 Compiling OpenSSL from scratch doubles the OpenSSL speed by a factor of 2. This can also be seen when running 107 107 {{{ 108 108 openssl speed -evp aes-256-cbc 109 109 }}} 110 This is caused mainly by the fact that the CentOS-supplied OpenSSL 0.9.8e-fips library seems broken. The Fedora 12+ supplied OpenSSL 1.0.0-fips library does not induce the same penalty. 110 111 111 112 == Using OpenSSL 1.0.0 with AES-NI capable hardware ==