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		acdha on Nov 6, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Intel is adding instructions to speed up non-v... Do you believe it's reasonable to assume that AES performance will remain constant over the same 5-7 year timeframe? That's at least a couple of hardware generations for an improvement they could make in the current generation if there was a market for it.

pbsd on Nov 8, 2014 [–]

There is certainly room for improvement, but I don't see an 16x speedup happening on a 5-year horizon using the current AES-NI instruction set.

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