[Development] Qt-AES - Looking for comments

Matteo matteo.brichese at gmail.com
Wed Jul 12 23:02:24 CEST 2017


>From: Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com>
>Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 10:59:30 -0700
>Subject: Re: [Development] Qt-AES - Looking for comments
>On quarta-feira, 12 de julho de 2017 09:40:17 PDT Matteo wrote:
>> >>you do, what value does your library have on top of the 4 processor
>> >>instructions?
>>
>> You mean using the AES-NI instructions?
>
>Yes, for x86. I think ARM has them too.
>
>> The tinycrypt project you show me does not look like they are using any
>> special instructions to be hardware accelerated, or am I missing
something?
>
>You're not. TinyCrypt was designed for Intel MCUs. Those don't have SSE
>registers, so they can't have AES-NI. So no one felt the need to add
support.
>
>Could be as simple as a pull request, though. The maintainer sits a couple
of
>rows from me, if necessary.

I'll definitely take a look at AES-NI.

Thank you!

-- 
Matteo
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