is it possible to geli with Intel Core i7 with AES New Instructions ?

Pawel Jakub Dawidek pjd at FreeBSD.org
Thu May 5 13:20:05 UTC 2011


On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 04:08:29PM +0300, Zeus V Panchenko wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> is it possible to do the sabj?
> 
> in another words, is it possible to use geli disk with hardware
> acceleration of AES functions by CPU like Intel Core i7 or others?
> 
> like mentioned here:
> 
> http://ark.intel.com/MySearch.aspx?s=t&AESTech=true

Sure:

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU       M 540  @ 2.53GHz (2527.06-MHz K8-class CPU)
  Features2=0x298e3ff<SSE3,PCLMULQDQ,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,SMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,POPCNT,AESNI>

GEOM_ELI: Device gpt/swap.eli created.
GEOM_ELI: Encryption: AES-XTS 256
GEOM_ELI:     Crypto: hardware

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