AES instruction set for INTEL CPUS

Martyr

This is more related to programming, but could interest those interested in high-performance computing with crypto.

AVX (Advanced Vector Extensions) should be available in processors around 2010.

The cool thing is that it has its own AES instruction set.

The PCLMULQDQ will also be useful in Elliptic Curve crypto.

Another nice / overlooked instruction for crypto is PSHUFB (Packed Shuffle Bytes) which you can use for byte table lookups.

I saw similar isntruction SHUFB first appearing in the Cell B.E on PS3 and some code showing it used to accelerate AES key scheduling by 25x over regular method of table lookup using arrays.

it can be used for other algorithms too, like RC4 (WEP cracking)

another instruction which you may or may not find useful is CRC32c which simply returns a CRC32 checksum of some data..

alot of people say assembly is not worth learning anymore, but its silly comment.
there are so many instructions now in assembly, so many different ideas to optimize code from old ways we're all familiar with, maybe some people are just afraid to learn new things.

conceited

Nice find joe.I'm sure they will come in very handy for some people.