Linux Patches Speed-Up Kernel Crypto Functions With RISC-V Vector Extensions

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux Patches Speed-Up Kernel Crypto Functions With RISC-V Vector Extensions

Patches posted this week by SiFive for the Linux kernel provide cryptographic implementations of various functions inside the Linux kernel using the processor ISA's vector crypto extensions...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-RISC-V-Vector-Crypto

[ayumu]

Standard, instead of per-vendor, cryptography acceleration.

RISC-V excels.

[M.Bahr]

I am missing Blake3 in the list. On the other hand it is already one of the fastest algorithms for cryptographic hash functions on conventional cpus. It scales very well on multi-core processors without needing special hardware. I am curious how it would go off with the help of vector extensions.