5x speedup for AES using SSE5?

Ilya Levin ilevin at gmail.com
Tue Aug 26 09:34:17 EDT 2008


Brian Gladman wrote:
> But a fully byte oriented implementation runs at about 140 cycles/byte
> and here the S-Box substitution step is a significant bottleneck.
> ...
> It is also possible that the PPERM instruction could be used to speed up
> the Galois field calculations to produce the S-Box mathematically rather
> than by table lookup. I have tried this in the past but it has not
> proved competitive.  But PPERM looks interesting here as well.

This is where the following may be handy:
http://www.literatecode.com/2007/11/11/aes256/

It is a byte-oriented AES-256 implementation without S-box tables.
Although I doubt it can be speeded up that much.

Regards,
Ilya
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http://www.literatecode.com

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