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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JJK
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    105105=== 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 running
     106Compiling OpenSSL from scratch doubles the OpenSSL speed by a factor of 2. This can also be seen when running
    107107{{{
    108108  openssl speed -evp aes-256-cbc
    109109}}}
     110This 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.
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    111112== Using OpenSSL 1.0.0 with AES-NI capable hardware ==