Intel Accelerator Engine

[Andy Polyakov]

So called Intel Accelerator Engined is available at
http://www.openssl.org/contrib/ [with source at
http://cvs.openssl.org/dir?d=openssl-addons/intel-accel]. Quoting README:

" This is essentially a collection of assembler modules from
development OpenSSL branch, packed together as a standalone engine.
"Standalone" means that it can be compiled outside OpenSSL source tree
without patching the latter. Idea is to provide a way to utilize new
code in already released OpenSSL versions constrained by support and
release policies limiting their evolvement to genuine bug fixes.
...
Supported platforms are limited to ELF-based Unix-compatible OSes.
Even though it's Intel Accelerator Engine it can be loaded on any
compatible CPU and even might improve performance. It makes lesser
sense to deploy it on pre-Bulldozer AMD CPUs, but it makes perfect
sense to do so on Bulldozer, because it supports AES-NI instruction
set extension."
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