[openssl-users] Checking for AES-NI accelration

[Nagesh shamnur]

Hi Group,

            I am running an application which transfers huge chunks of data every second (850Mbps) and the same is secured using openssl. However the CPU usage on windows is very high ( ~ 100%). So as a part of the analysis, I stumbled upon the information that, when using AES encryption, if the underlying hardware is Intel CPU, it can support AES-NI instruction set and hence make the crypto processing faster. So, I wanted to confirm if the same is enabled in my hardware.

            So, I wanted to know how to verify if the run is able to use the AES-NI instruction set available in the hardware.

            I have built openssl and have ensured enabling the asm in both linux and windows build.



            For windows, to confirm if AES-NI is enabled, support of tools available like truecrypt, CPU-Z and blackbox were used if the same was enabled in OS usage. And I found that the same is disabled. Also I found in some blogs that the same needs to be enabled in BIOS. When checked the BIOS settings, the option was not be found and a BIOS update is required to enable the same.



However in linux I was unable to conclude if AES-NI is disabled since I didn’t had access to any such tools on linux. I checked "#cpuinfo | grep aes" and i was unable to find any line regarding AES-NI. However when i run the ./openssl speed -evp aes-128-gcm and OPENSSL_ia32cap="~0x200000200000000" ./openssl speed -elapsed -evp aes-128-gcm i am able to find the difference in speed. So i wanted to check how to confirm if my linux build has AES-NI enabled or not?




Environment Information:

CPU: E5-2620 0 @2.0GHz

OS: Windows Server 2008

Linux: Ubuntu 3.11.0-15-generic

Openssl versoin: 1.0.2h

Mainboard: Manufacturer Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., Model: BC11SRSH1 V100R002

BIOS: Brand: INsyde Corp, RMISV061, 06/20/2013


Regards,
Nagesh.

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