On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 11:27:53PM -0400, Ted Ts'o wrote:
> Here's a random thought --- it won't help on anything other than
> modern x86's, but who's to say we have to use the same algorithm on
> all platforms?  Does the AES-NI facility provide enough of a speedup
> that it's worth using it instead of MD5, at least on modern x86
> systems which have this support?

It is fast but it also touches SSE state.

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