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If it hadn't been aes-ni, it would have been chacha, which is much faster than unaccelerated aes and close to the speed of accelerated aes. Phones use https wi
by moonchild 6y ago
If it hadn't been aes-ni, it would have been chacha, which is much faster than unaccelerated aes and close to the speed of accelerated aes.
Phones use https without a problem, and those haven't had hw-accelerated aes until recently.
- giantrobot 6y agoA phone needing to set up a dozen HTTPS sockets is nothing for the CPU to do even without acceleration. A server needing to consistently set up hundreds of HTTPS sockets is where AES-NI and other accelerated crypto instructions becomes useful.