Cryptographic Performance on the
2
nd
Generation Intel® Core™ processor family
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Conclusion
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. The net
result is an improvement in cryptographic performance up to ~1.8X
previous Intel processors.
References
[1] Intel
®
64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer’s Manual Volume 1
[2] Breakthrough AES performance with Intel AES New Instructions
[3] Fast and Constant-time Implementation of Modular Exponentiation
[4] Processing Multiple buffers in parallel
[5] Intel AVX programming reference
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