Re: base OpenSSL is much, much slower than the package

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Sat, May 09, 2020 at 05:30:18PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Sat, May 09, 2020 at 03:25:25PM +0000, nia wrote:
> > On Sat, May 09, 2020 at 01:13:44PM +0000, nia wrote:
> > > Right, yes, the CPUID stuff wasn't being defined when builing EVP which
> > > meant the dumb asm implementation was being used instead of HW/VP/BSAES.
> > > 
> > > That's fixed now. Everything else appears to still be slightly slower,
> > > but that's less critical than the AES implementation.
> > 
> > ... and SHA2 is slower because we're patching OpenSSL to use the libc
> > implementation, which is pure C. Any reason for this?
> 
> ABI differences.

We could -- probably should -- arrange for OpenSSL to use its own
implementation when called via EVP.

Thor