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$FreeBSD: releng/11.0/share/man/man4/aesni.4 292181 2015-12-14 07:08:17Z kevlo $
.Dd December 14, 2015 .Dt AESNI 4 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm aesni .Nd "driver for the AES accelerator on Intel CPUs" .Sh SYNOPSIS To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file: d -ragged -offset indent .Cd "device crypto" .Cd "device cryptodev" .Cd "device aesni" .Ed
p Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in .Xr loader.conf 5 : d -literal -offset indent aesni_load="YES" .Ed .Sh DESCRIPTION Starting with some models of Core i5/i7, Intel processors implement a new set of instructions called AESNI. The set of six instructions accelerates the calculation of the key schedule for key lengths of 128, 192, and 256 of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) symmetric cipher, and provides a hardware implementation of the regular and the last encryption and decryption rounds.
p The processor capability is reported as AESNI in the Features2 line at boot. The .Nm driver does not attach on systems that lack the required CPU capability.
p The .Nm driver registers itself to accelerate AES operations for .Xr crypto 4 . Besides speed, the advantage of using the .Nm driver is that the AESNI operation is data-independent, thus eliminating some attack vectors based on measuring cache use and timings typically present in table-driven implementations. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr crypt 3 , .Xr crypto 4 , .Xr intro 4 , .Xr ipsec 4 , .Xr padlock 4 , .Xr random 4 , .Xr crypto 9 .Sh HISTORY The .Nm driver first appeared in .Fx 9.0 . .Sh AUTHORS .An -nosplit The .Nm driver was written by .An Konstantin Belousov Aq Mt kib@FreeBSD.org . The key schedule calculation code was adopted from the sample provided by Intel and used in the analogous .Ox driver.