Cryptographic Performance on the
2nd Generation Intel® Core™ processor family
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Executive Summary
The latest 2
nd
Generation Intel® Core™ processor family brings huge
performance increases to cryptographic applications.
Cryptographic algorithms consist of public and private key operations,
combined with secure hashing. We examine the performance of a small
representative set of algorithms on the new processors, and compare
with the performance of the Intel® microarchitecture code named
Westmere.
This paper describes the performance increase that can be achieved
on the 2
nd
Generation Intel® Core™ processor family over the Intel®
microarchitecture code named Westmere, on cryptographic
applications. We show the results on a small representative sample
set of algorithms optimized for performance on each processor. The
net result is an improvement in cryptographic performance up to
~1.8X over the previous Intel processors
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