AES acceleration

[FlorianPi]

Could someone with a BPI-M5 confirm whether it has crypto extensions? Could you run `cryptsetup benchmark` or `openssl speed aes-128-cbc`? Thanks!

[FlorianPi]

Answering my own question, yes it does:

 

root@bananapim5:~# lscpu | grep aes
Flags:                           fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 atomics fphp asimdhp cpuid asimdrdm lrcpc dcpop asimddp

 

 

root@bananapim5:~# cryptsetup benchmark
# Tests are approximate using memory only (no storage IO).
PBKDF2-sha1       287438 iterations per second for 256-bit key
PBKDF2-sha256     551882 iterations per second for 256-bit key
PBKDF2-sha512     342224 iterations per second for 256-bit key
PBKDF2-ripemd160  200109 iterations per second for 256-bit key
PBKDF2-whirlpool  104523 iterations per second for 256-bit key
argon2i       4 iterations, 417426 memory, 4 parallel threads (CPUs) for 256-bit key (requested 2000 ms time)
argon2id      4 iterations, 421453 memory, 4 parallel threads (CPUs) for 256-bit key (requested 2000 ms time)
#     Algorithm |       Key |      Encryption |      Decryption             aes-cbc        128b       467.8 MiB/s       520.4 MiB/s
    serpent-cbc        128b        44.4 MiB/s        49.7 MiB/s
    twofish-cbc        128b        69.0 MiB/s        73.9 MiB/s
        aes-cbc        256b       457.1 MiB/s       529.3 MiB/s
    serpent-cbc        256b        45.1 MiB/s        49.7 MiB/s
    twofish-cbc        256b        70.0 MiB/s        73.8 MiB/s
        aes-xts        256b       554.0 MiB/s       553.7 MiB/s
    serpent-xts        256b        43.8 MiB/s        49.1 MiB/s
    twofish-xts        256b        69.4 MiB/s        75.2 MiB/s
        aes-xts        512b       505.9 MiB/s       505.4 MiB/s
    serpent-xts        512b        46.2 MiB/s        50.2 MiB/s
    twofish-xts        512b        73.2 MiB/s        75.1 MiB/s