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cfrg / draft-irtf-cfrg-aegis-aead

Specification for the AEGIS family of authenticated encryption algorithms.
https://cfrg.github.io/draft-irtf-cfrg-aegis-aead/draft-irtf-cfrg-aegis-aead.html
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Replace "hardware support" with "CPUs with AES instructions" #54

Closed jedisct1 closed 5 days ago

jedisct1 commented 5 days ago

Also remove the reference to the original AEGIS paper as a source for performance measurements.

This paper is getting old and doesn't reflect the performance of AEGIS and AES-GCM on modern CPUs. It also doesn't include parallel variants.

Part of #50

jedisct1 commented 5 days ago

Fair enough. LGTM, although shouldn't we have an alternate reference like D23?

I'm not sure. 10 years from now, benchmarks conducted on an AMD Zen 4 CPU are going to feel old and irrelevant.

jedisct1 commented 5 days ago

Even the benchmark from D23 is outdated, because since then, OpenSSL got an AES-GCM implementation specialized for AVX-512.

samuel-lucas6 commented 5 days ago

Ok good point. Happy to leave it, and we can revisit it if someone mentions it. At least some of the referenced papers have benchmarks.