JEP Review: JVM Hardware Crypto Acceleration

[Florian Weimer]

On 09/29/2014 10:33 PM, Anthony Scarpino wrote:
> Please review the below JEP for JVM Hardware Crypto Acceleration.  The
> focus is to use ISA crypto instructions available in x86 and sparc
> platforms and to help access to use them.
>
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8046943

Can you show what you actually benchmarked?  Just GHASH, or the full 
cipher suite?

The actual impact of this change will be less than expected for TLS 
because after fixing GHASH (for which I had already posted a patch), the 
TLS implementation is largely GC-bound.

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security