[Cryptography] How can I make use of the AES hardware on new CPUs?

[Bear]

On Mon, 2014-03-17 at 08:30 +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Mar 2014, Bear wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2014-03-14 at 18:21 -0700, Bear wrote:
> > > I am writing some software for which I would like to take advantage 
> > > of the built-in AES instructions supposedly now included in AMD64 
> > > CPUs. 
> > 
> > Just wanted to say thanks to those who gave me pointers.  Much 
> > appreciated. 
> 
> Err, given recent threads, why would you trust the silicon? :-)

I only "mostly" trust the silicon.  What I'm writing will 
do bisimulation about 1% of the time to make sure the 
dedicated and non-dedicated silicon come up with the same 
answers.  

If there is any broad class of keys or ciphertexts on which 
they do not, then that will be an interesting thing to know -- 
and will become visible as heralded by the appearance of an 
error message, which I will get calls about.  

			Bear