[tor-relays] Using aes-in in Tor

[Robert Ransom]

On 8/15/12, tor-admin <tor-admin at torland.me> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am struggling setting up aes-in support with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I enabled
> aes in bios. cat /proc/cpuinfo shows the aes flag.
>
> #lsmod |grep aes
> aesni_intel            55664  0
> cryptd                 20530  1 aesni_intel
> aes_x86_64             17208  1 aesni_intel
>
> shows that the module is loaded. But
>
> #openssl engine
> (rsax) RSAX engine support
> (dynamic) Dynamic engine loading support
>
> shows not the aes engine. My openssl version is
>
> #openssl version
> OpenSSL 1.0.1 14 Mar 2012

OpenSSL 1.0.1 uses AES-NI by default if it is available.


Robert Ransom