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| author | Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> | 2014-07-05 22:39:08 +0100 |
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| committer | Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org> | 2014-07-06 00:03:13 +0100 |
| commit | 75b7606881b08a892f487629cc30e63dff1800cb (patch) | |
| tree | 7d124039b67ac42ee6359e21766d203ae5e8c44c /doc | |
| parent | fd9e244370d13606182a144833a1d3244cff5b85 (diff) | |
| download | openssl-new-75b7606881b08a892f487629cc30e63dff1800cb.tar.gz | |
Added reference to platform specific cryptographic acceleration such as AES-NI
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/crypto/EVP_EncryptInit.pod | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/crypto/EVP_EncryptInit.pod b/doc/crypto/EVP_EncryptInit.pod index 3b132c4490..e440463756 100644 --- a/doc/crypto/EVP_EncryptInit.pod +++ b/doc/crypto/EVP_EncryptInit.pod @@ -434,7 +434,10 @@ for AES. Where possible the B<EVP> interface to symmetric ciphers should be used in preference to the low level interfaces. This is because the code then becomes -transparent to the cipher used and much more flexible. +transparent to the cipher used and much more flexible. Additionally, the +B<EVP> interface will ensure the use of platform specific cryptographic +acceleration such as AES-NI (the low level interfaces do not provide the +guarantee). PKCS padding works by adding B<n> padding bytes of value B<n> to make the total length of the encrypted data a multiple of the block size. Padding is always |