Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7500 @ 2.20GHz

CPU :	family 6, model 15 and stepping 11
model name :	Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7500 @ 2.20GHz
cpu MHz :	1200.000 / 2200.000
cache size :	4096 KB
flags :	fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm dts tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority
bogomips :	4388.07

Mainboard :	Advansus i965GM-DCQI
Memory DDR2:	2G @ 800MHz
Memory benchmark (hdparm) :	3562.11 MB/sec
HD benchmark (hdparm udma5) : (OCZ CORE_SSD)	66.95 MB/sec

OS: openSUSE 11.4

SSL test:

linux:~> openssl version

OpenSSL 1.0.0c 2 Dec 2010

linux:~> openssl engine

(aesni) Intel AES-NI engine (no-aesni)
(dynamic) Dynamic engine loading support

linux:~> openssl speed -evp aes-128-cbc rc4 blowfish
The 'numbers' are in 1000s of bytes per second processed.

type	16 bytes	64 bytes	256 bytes	1024 bytes	8192 bytes
rc4	319770.13k	352965.18k	316828.08k	262330.37k	244995.41k
blowfish cbc	79629.24k	84159.83k	85523.46k	86187.24k	86076.07k
aes-128-cbc	59437.61k	70680.26k	73896.53k	118254.59k	119649.62k

ssh test:

Create big empty file (1Gb file)

dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile count=0 seek=2000k  

ssh benchmark - to localhost.

scp bigfile localhost:/dev/null 
for i in aes128-cbc blowfish ; do scp -c  bigfile localhost:/dev/null ; done

bigfile.ePDWxYz8au                             100% 1000MB  40.0MB/s   00:25    
bigfile.ePDWxYz8au                             100% 1000MB  66.7MB/s   00:15    
bigfile.ePDWxYz8au                             100% 1000MB  52.6MB/s   00:19    

default :	40.0MB/s
aes128-cbc :	66.7MB/s
blowfish :	52.6MB/s

ramdisk test:

size: 1000 megabytes, cipher:aes-cbc-essiv:sha256, key: 256b, direct I/O for both write/read

	unencrypted		encrypted
blocksize	write speed	read speed	encrypt speed	decrypt speed
512	39.468	42.036	12.928	16.850
1k	73.493	78.284	18.119	26.115
2k	129.510	151.633	25.074	36.230
4k	241.820	288.677	39.605	44.817
8k	385.300	489.263	44.163	50.730
16k	617.730	842.623	47.033	54.388
1M	1168.989	1853.355	52.273	61.073

encrypted ramdisk test, direct i/o:
size: 1024 megabytes, cipher: aes-cbc-essiv:sha256, key: 256b

blocksize	write speed	read speed	enc speed	dec speed
512	36.383	43.813	16.950	17.091
1k	77.871	81.079	24.860	26.297
2k	141.008	157.036	32.820	36.104
4k	266.949	300.466	39.904	44.477
8k	409.102	501.488	43.735	50.138
16k	593.007	760.913	46.374	53.577
1M	1175.672	1868.377	51.366	60.127

Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 1007U @ 1.50GHz

cores 2 / threads 2

CPU :	family 6, model 58 and stepping 9
model name :	Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 1007U @ 1.50GHz
cpu MHz :	1500.000
cache size :	2048 KB
flags :	fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf eagerfpu pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt tsc_deadline_timer xsave lahf_lm arat epb xsaveopt pln pts dtherm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid fsgsbase smep erms
bogomips :	2993.22

Mainboard :	GIGABYTE C1007UN
Memory :	4G DDR3 @ 1333
Memory benchmark (hdparm) :	2833.34 MB/sec
HD benchmark (hdparm udma5) : (OCZ Throttle 8G)	82.71 MB/sec

OS: openSUSE 12.3 x86_64

openSSL test:

linux:~> openssl version

OpenSSL 1.0.1e 11 Feb 2013

linux:~> openssl engine

(rsax) RSAX engine support
(dynamic) Dynamic engine loading support

linux:~> openssl speed -evp aes-128-cbc rc4 blowfish
The 'numbers' are in 1000s of bytes per second processed.

type	16 bytes	64 bytes	256 bytes	1024 bytes	8192 bytes
rc4	192087.82k	297905.04k	339414.39k	353394.01k	357806.83k
blowfish cbc	53337.48k	56018.37k	57258.55k	57437.50k	57620.72k
aes-128-cbc	131353.65k	146644.87k	149472.58k	151480.08k	151907.81k

openSSH test:

Create big empty file (1Gb file)

dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile count=0 seek=2000k  

ssh benchmark - to localhost.

scp bigfile localhost:/dev/null 
for i in aes128-cbc blowfish ; do scp -c  bigfile localhost:/dev/null ; done

bigfile.JCctYuNI4b                            100% 1000MB  37.0MB/s   00:27    
bigfile.JCctYuNI4b                            100% 1000MB  58.8MB/s   00:17    
bigfile.JCctYuNI4b                            100% 1000MB  40.0MB/s   00:25    

default :	37.0MB/s
aes128-cbc :	58.8MB/s
blowfish :	40.0MB/s

(encrypted) ramdisk benchmark:

direct io:
size: 1500 megabytes, cipher: aes-cbc-essiv:sha256, key: 256b

direct write:	cipher: none		cipher: aes
blocksize	write speed	read speed	encrypt speed	decrypt speed
512	34.992	520.163	14.126	72.022
1k	64.048	893.639	20.719	72.549
2k	122.867	1345.351	29.203	72.638
4k	248.161	1789.820	47.144	72.736
8k	434.155	2074.611	54.515	72.807
16k	708.402	2132.329	52.118	72.908
1M	1979.387	1931.108	66.427	73.064

cached:
size: 1500 megabytes, aes-cbc-essiv:sha256, key: 256b

cached write:	cipher: none		cipher: aes
blocksize	write speed	read speed	encrypt speed	decrypt speed
512	153.724	525.815	66.128	72.547
1k	255.497	881.761	95.482	72.568
2k	381.030	1323.615	94.079	72.618
4k	510.932	1812.139	109.425	72.719
8k	606.975	2077.982	110.787	72.713
16k	673.866	2188.659	112.891	72.859
1M	705.776	1950.344	112.146	72.771

Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU G645 @ 2.90GHz

cores 2 / threads 2

CPU :	family , model 42 and stepping 7
model name :	Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU G645 @ 2.90GHz
cpu MHz :	1600.000 / 2900.000
cache size :	3072 KB
flags :	fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt tsc_deadline_timer xsave lahf_lm arat epb xsaveopt pln pts dtherm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid
bogomips :	5786.95

Mainboard :	GIGABYTE H61N-D2V
Memory :	8G DDR3 @1333
Memory benchmark (hdparm) :	5900.85 MB/sec
HD benchmark (hdparm udma5) : (Western Digital Raptor)	68.26 MB/sec

OS: openSUSE 12.1

openSSL benchmark:

linux:~> openssl version

OpenSSL 1.0.1c 10 May 2012

linux:~> openssl engine

(rsax) RSAX engine support
(dynamic) Dynamic engine loading support

linux:~> openssl speed -evp aes-128-cbc rc4 blowfish
The 'numbers' are in 1000s of bytes per second processed.

type	16 bytes	64 bytes	256 bytes	1024 bytes	8192 bytes
rc4	338103.58k	551832.70k	647146.51k	675611.23k	679630.17k
blowfish cbc	94242.19k	99747.83k	101117.52k	101526.00k	101665.73k
aes-128-cbc	258532.08k	290244.11k	297594.78k	302049.86k	302950.57k

openSSH benchmark:

Create big empty file (1Gb file)

dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile count=0 seek=2000k  

ssh benchmark - to localhost.

scp bigfile localhost:/dev/null 
for i in aes128-cbc blowfish ; do scp -c $i  bigfile localhost:/dev/null ; done

bigfile.zh19nJ62kx                                 100% 1000MB  62.5MB/s   00:16    
bigfile.zh19nJ62kx                                 100% 1000MB 142.9MB/s   00:07    
bigfile.zh19nJ62kx                                 100% 1000MB  66.7MB/s   00:15    

default :	62.5MB/s
aes128-cbc :	142.9MB/s
blowfish :	66.7MB/s

encrypted ramdisk benchmark:

size: 500 megabytes, speeds in MB/s

blocksize	write	read	encrypt	decrypt
512	258.874	1012.067	214.548	199.230
1k	399.364	1593.615	284.365	214.066
2k	573.431	2247.686	370.381	205.164
4k	779.522	2790.723	464.809	215.747
8k	863.329	2892.748	490.783	213.531
16k	912.204	2840.053	513.012	213.523
1M	949.914	2833.230	525.583	211.364

2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5560 @ 2.80GHz

CPUs 2 / cores 4 / threads 16

CPU :	family , model 26 and stepping 5
model name :	Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5560 @ 2.80GHz
cpu MHz :	1600.000 /2801.000
cache size :	8192 KB
flags :	fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm dca sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm ida dts tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid
bogomips :	5599.19

Mainboard :	Supermicro X8DAH+-F_
Memory :	96G DDR3 @ 1333 ECC
Memory benchmark (hdparm) :	8823.29 MB/sec
HD benchmark (hdparm udma6) : (Intel X18-M/X25-M/X25-V G2 SSDs)	188.78 MB/sec

OS:openSUSE 11.4

openSSL benchmark:

linux:~> openssl version

OpenSSL 1.0.0k 5 Feb 2013

linux:~> openssl engine

(aesni) Intel AES-NI engine (no-aesni)
(dynamic) Dynamic engine loading support

linux:~> openssl speed -evp aes-128-cbc rc4 blowfish
The 'numbers' are in 1000s of bytes per second processed.

type	16 bytes	64 bytes	256 bytes	1024 bytes	8192 bytes
rc4	333908.14k	358351.93k	322019.06k	324682.66k	319383.89k
blowfish cbc	108741.83k	113345.84k	113786.26k	111634.15k	113263.30k
aes-128-cbc	86397.43k	95110.10k	98164.18k	98861.21k	100087.61k

openSSH benchmark:

Create big empty file (1Gb file)

dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile count=0 seek=2000k  

ssh benchmark - to localhost.

scp bigfile localhost:/dev/null 
for i in aes128-cbc blowfish ; do scp -c  bigfile localhost:/dev/null ; done

bigfile.nmRm2q76y1                                 100% 1000MB  62.5MB/s   00:16    
bigfile.nmRm2q76y1                                 100% 1000MB  47.6MB/s   00:21    
bigfile.nmRm2q76y1                                 100% 1000MB  71.4MB/s   00:14    

default :	62.5MB/s
aes128-cbc :	47.6MB/s
blowfish :	71.4MB/s

encrypted ramdisk test:

It is evident, thate there is some distortion due to the write cache: the machine has 96GB ram vs 1.5G ramdisk size.

	unencrypted		encrypted
blocksize	write speed	read speed	encrypt speed	decrypt speed
512	475.249	797.113	543.139	119.374
1k	788.407	1220.117	702.260	118.573
2k	1053.555	1314.705	1029.413	123.860
4k	1290.156	1972.262	1286.758	122.882
8k	1386.975	2218.426	1407.089	120.780
16k	1451.842	2299.632	1454.362	120.326
1M	1478.007	1482.638	1486.723	120.268

size: 1500 megabytes, cipher: aes-cbc-essiv:sha256, key: 256b

In the next test I have specified oflag=direct in the write/encrypt phase of the test:
  dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/cryptramdisk/testfile bs=$i oflag=direct 
 

	unencrypted		encrypted
blocksize	write speed	read speed	encrypt speed	decrypt speed
512	73.683	855.768	6.802	119.000
1k	117.380	986.258	29.959	125.969
2k	213.170	1432.815	44.993	127.687
4k	390.188	1584.645	74.000	127.211
8k	721.074	2281.958	85.902	126.657
16k	1188.749	1471.006	89.185	124.285
1M	2412.269	2280.647	106.671	124.164

size: 1500 megabytes, cipher: aes-cbc-essiv:sha256, key: 256b, dd: oflag=direct

2x Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.06GHz (Prestonia core)

2x Prestonia based Xeon (2004)

CPUs 2 /cores 2 / threads 4

CPU :	family 15, model 2 and stepping 9
model name :	Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.06GHz (or cpu-world.com)
cpu MHz :	3065.825 (FSB 533 MHz)
cache size :	512 KB
flags :	fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe pebs bts cid xtpr
bogomips :	6132.00

Mainboard :	Tyan Tiger GC-SL (S2727), see www.motherboards.org
Memory :	4x 1G Samsung DDR @533 ECC
Memory benchmark (hdparm) :	489.80 MB/sec
HD benchmark (hdparm ) : (SEAGATE_ST336607LW)	65.43 MB/sec

OS:openSUSE 12.2

openSSL

linux:~> openssl version

OpenSSL 1.0.1c 10 May 2012

linux:~> openssl engine

(dynamic) Dynamic engine loading support

linux:~> openssl speed -evp aes-128-cbc rc4 blowfish
The 'numbers' are in 1000s of bytes per second processed.

type	16 bytes	64 bytes	256 bytes	1024 bytes	8192 bytes
rc4	214227.07k	317349.08k	378839.04k	397950.98k	401514.50k
blowfish cbc	87676.29k	91639.40k	92346.97k	93147.36k	91712.17k
aes-128-cbc	47209.65k	55354.39k	59229.18k	60330.33k	60650.84k

openSSH

Create big empty file (1Gb file)

dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile count=0 seek=2000k  

ssh benchmark - to localhost.

scp bigfile localhost:/dev/null 
for i in aes128-cbc blowfish ; do scp -c  bigfile localhost:/dev/null ; done

bigfile.URr9WRHs74                                 100% 1000MB  17.2MB/s   00:58    
bigfile.URr9WRHs74                                 100% 1000MB  23.8MB/s   00:42    
bigfile.URr9WRHs74                                 100% 1000MB  25.0MB/s   00:40    

default (aes128-ctr) :	17.2MB/s
aes128-cbc :	23.8MB/s
blowfish :	25.0MB/s

encrypted ramdisk test:

ramdisk size: 1500 megabytes, cipher: aes-cbc-essiv:sha256, key: 256b

	unencrypted		encrypted
blocksize	write speed	read speed	encrypt	decrypt
512	110.799	241.782	40.9765	45.082
1k	159.2555	353.7805	53.1705	49.84
2k	198.9995	385.364	44.659	50.455
4k	237.2065	400.021	43.8495	51.2285
8k	247.679	399.6995	47.084	52.127
16k	261.6115	398.098	51.419	50.776
1M	176.2905	263.2645	46.8625	48.031

encrypted ramdisk test, direct i/o:
size: 2048 megabytes, cipher: aes-cbc-essiv:sha256, key: 256b

blocksize	write speed	read speed	enc speed	dec speed
512	17.694	21.265	11.066	12.280
1k	37.393	41.258	17.949	20.397
2k	64.608	80.828	26.094	30.734
4k	133.044	156.103	34.179	41.507
8k	208.585	267.451	39.236	49.213
16k	309.788	418.543	44.035	55.063
1M	284.963	475.803	46.702	55.106

Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU 330 @ 1.60GHz

cores 2 / threads 4

CPU :	family , model 28 and stepping 2
model name :	Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU 330 @ 1.60GHz
cpu MHz :	1596.239
cache size :	512 KB
flags :	fpu vme de tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm movbe lahf_lm dtherm
bogomips :	3192.47

Mainboard :	Intel D945GCLF2
Memory :	2G DDR2 @533
Memory benchmark (hdparm) :	584.20 MB/sec
HD benchmark (hdparm udma6) : (Intel X18-M/X25-M G1 SSDs)	188.30 MB/sec

OS:openSUSE 12.2 i586

linux:~> openssl version

OpenSSL 1.0.1e 11 Feb 2013

linux:~> openssl engine

(dynamic) Dynamic engine loading support

linux:~> openssl speed -evp aes-128-cbc rc4 blowfish
The 'numbers' are in 1000s of bytes per second processed.

type	16 bytes	64 bytes	256 bytes	1024 bytes	8192 bytes
rc4	89121.64k	114821.74k	123026.01k	125830.14k	126809.43k
blowfish cbc	49468.01k	54694.44k	55319.21k	56038.74k	56145.24k
aes-128-cbc	21300.34k	23640.06k	24617.81k	24874.67k	24952.83k

Create big empty file (100Mb file)

dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile count=0 seek=200k  

ssh benchmark - to localhost.

scp bigfile localhost:/dev/null 
for i in aes128-cbc blowfish ; do scp -c  bigfile localhost:/dev/null ; done

bigfile.GBunmIPr1O                                          100%  100MB   8.3MB/s   00:12    
bigfile.GBunmIPr1O                                          100%  100MB  14.3MB/s   00:07    
bigfile.GBunmIPr1O                                          100%  100MB  33.3MB/s   00:03    

default :	8.3MB/s
aes128-cbc :	14.3MB/s
blowfish :	33.3MB/s

encrypted ramdisk test:
size: 100 and 500 megabytes, cipher: aes-cbc-essiv:sha256, key: 256b

blocksize	encr. speed 100MB	decr. speed 100MB	encr. speed 500MB	decr. speed 500MB
512	19.238	22.707	22.164	18.632
1k	24.089	19.248	30.134	18.665
2k	26.549	23.972	38.580	18.458
4k	62.699	19.329	47.993	22.426
8k	75.382	23.757	45.834	21.408
16k	77.470	19.224	48.151	19.847
1M	72.539	19.855	49.272	18.058

Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4570 CPU @ 3.20GHz (w. AES_NI)

cores 4 / threads 4

CPU :	family , model 60 and stepping 3
model name :	Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4570 CPU @ 3.20GHz
cpu MHz :	3201.000 / 800.000
cache size :	6144 KB
flags :	fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf eagerfpu pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 fma cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm abm ida arat epb xsaveopt pln pts dtherm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid fsgsbase bmi1 hle avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid rtm
bogomips :	6528.40

Mainboard :	ASUS Z87K
Memory :	16G DDR3 @ 1333
Memory benchmark (hdparm) :	14263.90 MB/sec
HD benchmark (hdparm udma6) : (Samsung SSD 840 EVO 120GB)	513.42 MB/sec

OS: openSUSE 12.3 x64
linux:~> openssl version

OpenSSL 1.0.1e 11 Feb 2013

linux:~> openssl engine

(rsax) RSAX engine support
(rdrand) Intel RDRAND engine
(dynamic) Dynamic engine loading support

linux:~> openssl speed -evp aes-128-cbc rc4 blowfish
The 'numbers' are in 1000s of bytes per second processed.

type	16 bytes	64 bytes	256 bytes	1024 bytes	8192 bytes
rc4	427220.93k	746003.93k	863724.80k	909415.77k	916816.31k
blowfish cbc	128327.78k	134717.07k	136319.06k	136954.35k	136396.80k
aes-128-cbc	744823.17k	804284.47k	819621.38k	826812.19k	825633.05k

Create big empty file (1Gb file)

dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile count=0 seek=2000k  

ssh benchmark - to localhost.

scp bigfile localhost:/dev/null 
for i in aes128-cbc blowfish ; do scp -c  bigfile localhost:/dev/null ; done

bigfile.yyznXIPwa8                                               100% 1000MB 100.0MB/s  00:10    
bigfile.yyznXIPwa8                                               100% 1000MB 333.3MB/s  00:03    
bigfile.yyznXIPwa8                                               100% 1000MB 100.0MB/s  00:10    

default :	100.0MB/s
aes128-cbc :	333.3MB/s
blowfish :	100.0MB/s

encrypted ramdisk test:
size: 500 megabytes, cipher: aes-cbc-essiv:sha256, key: 256b

blocksize	encrypt speed (MB/s)	decrypt speed(MB/s)
512	459.740	1165.938
1k	648.384	1342.292
2k	819.053	1353.579
4k	951.722	1467.993
8k	992.630	1419.430
16k	1010.366	1537.297
1M	1025.405	1481.828

encrypted ramdisk test 2 (direct i/o access, no fs)
size: 8192 megabytes, cipher: aes-cbc-essiv:sha256, key: 256b

blocksize	write speed	read speed	enc speed	dec speed
512	109.004	124.801	68.049	76.959
1k	212.417	245.119	114.922	143.792
2k	412.487	476.309	179.939	252.688
4k	782.179	862.965	251.660	409.964
8k	1313.835	1511.854	307.326	624.942
16k	2006.063	2443.338	347.675	787.669
1M	4774.449	6681.129	421.269	1081.190

VIA Esther processor 1500MHz (w. PadLock)

Shortcuts: openSSH openSSL encrypted disk

cpus: 1

CPU :	family , model 10 and stepping 9
model name :	VIA Esther processor 1500MHz
cpu MHz :	1500.000
cache size :	128 KB
flags :	fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge cmov pat clflush acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 tm pni est tm2 rng rng_en ace ace_en ace2 ace2_en phe phe_en pmm pmm_en
bogomips :	3000.01

Mainboard :	VIA NAS-7800
Memory :	1G  DDR2 @ (ADATA)
Memory benchmark (hdparm) :	241.83 MB/sec
HD benchmark (hdparm udma4) : (LEXAR ATA FLASH CARD)	41.65 MB/sec

OS:OpenSuSe 12.3 i586
openssl version

OpenSSL 1.0.1e 11 Feb 2013

linux:~> openssl engine

(dynamic) Dynamic engine loading support

Padlock is not explicitly mentioned here  but is supported and active via /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf :

linux:~> openssl engine -engine padlock
3074152072:error:25066067:DSO support routines:DLFCN_LOAD:could not load the shared library:dso_dlfcn.c:187:filename(/lib/engines/lib-engine.so): /lib/engines/lib-engine.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
3074152072:error:25070067:DSO support routines:DSO_load:could not load the shared library:dso_lib.c:244:
3074152072:error:260B6084:engine routines:DYNAMIC_LOAD:dso not found:eng_dyn.c:450:
3074152072:error:2606A074:engine routines:ENGINE_by_id:no such engine:eng_list.c:417:id=-engine
(padlock) VIA PadLock (no-RNG, ACE)

(no guess about the error messages)

OpenSSL benchmark

Padlock enabled:
linux:~> openssl speed -evp aes-128-cbc rc4 blowfish
The 'numbers' are in 1000s of bytes per second processed.

type	16 bytes	64 bytes	256 bytes	1024 bytes	8192 bytes
rc4	56056.98k	67281.60k	70631.85k	71735.64k	72056.83k
blowfish cbc	28871.10k	30710.25k	31215.10k	31367.17k	31413.59k
aes-128-cbc	56118.19k	135257.88k	216046.34k	275569.66k	323131.93k

Padlock disabled:

type	16 bytes	64 bytes	256 bytes	1024 bytes	8192 bytes
rc4	56242.78k	67245.53k	70622.72k	71963.57k	72034.99k
blowfish cbc	28771.66k	30706.86k	31304.52k	31358.98k	31410.86k
aes-128-cbc	10733.81k	11662.96k	11959.81k	23062.53k	23255.42k

openSSH benchmark

Create big empty file (100Mb file)

linux:~> dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile count=0 seek=200k  

ssh benchmark - to localhost. (ssh and sshd share the same CPU)

linux:~> scp bigfile localhost:/dev/null 
for i in aes128-cbc blowfish ; do scp -c  bigfile localhost:/dev/null ; done

padlock :	enabled	disabled
default :	3.7MB/s	3.7MB/s
aes128-cbc :	14.3MB/s	6.3MB/s
blowfish :	7.7MB/s	7.1MB/s

ssh benchmark outside (padlock enabled)

 
linux:~> for i in aes128-cbc blowfish ; do scp -c  bigfile remote:/dev/null ; done

default :	7.1MB/s
aes128-cbc :	20.0MB/s
blowfish :	12.5MB/s

encrypted ramdisk benchmark:

It seems, that encryption (with padlock) does not slow down the ramdisk as much as one could expect.

padlock enabled   vs.   padlock disabled

blocksize

write speed

read speed

encrypt speed PL

decrypt speed PL

encrypt speed CPU

decrypt speed CPU

512	51.351	91.295	48.216	41.622	5.159	12.581
1k	62.770	109.608	48.847	50.758	6.032	14.310
2k	71.662	121.159	56.640	56.312	6.393	15.180
4k	69.226	126.673	62.128	59.833	6.687	15.568
8k	79.637	130.204	63.657	61.153	6.760	15.802
16k	71.556	130.332	64.779	61.830	6.777	15.872
1M	64.415	117.353	53.490	58.584	6.170	14.937

size: 100 megabytes, cipher: aes-cbc-essiv:sha256, key: 256b



encrypted ramdisk test, direct i/o:
size: 512 megabytes, cipher: aes-cbc-essiv:sha256, key: 256b

blocksize	write speed	read speed	enc speed	dec speed
512	23.780	20.429	12.834	12.806
1k	44.378	38.421	22.742	23.117
2k	81.590	70.329	37.771	38.708
4k	142.958	120.355	55.782	58.294
8k	207.034	166.536	71.251	74.646
16k	266.791	208.799	80.524	86.960
1M	160.870	199.897	59.335	79.223

Links:
Interesting reading (VIA vs Intel vs AMD hardware aes)

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3820 CPU @ 3.60GHz

cores 4 / threads 8

CPU :	family , model 45 and stepping 7
model name :	Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3820 CPU @ 3.60GHz
cpu MHz :	3601.000
cache size :	10240 KB
flags :	fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid dca sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx lahf_lm ida arat epb xsaveopt pln pts dtherm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid
bogomips :	7204.61

Mainboard :	ASUS P9X79
Memory :	32G DDR3 @ 1333
Memory benchmark (hdparm) :	12927.09 MB/sec
HD benchmark (hdparm udma6) : (Intel 520 Series SSDs)	391.81 MB/sec

OS:
linux:~> openssl version

OpenSSL 1.0.1e 11 Feb 2013

linux:~> openssl engine

(rsax) RSAX engine support
(dynamic) Dynamic engine loading support

linux:~> openssl speed aes-128-cbc rc4 blowfish
The 'numbers' are in 1000s of bytes per second processed.

type	16 bytes	64 bytes	256 bytes	1024 bytes	8192 bytes
rc4	429837.52k	717058.07k	837975.50k	869986.30k	883744.77k
blowfish cbc	122608.15k	129478.61k	131858.49k	132105.90k	132251.65k
aes-128 cbc	114736.33k	123058.73k	124059.48k	125744.47k	125610.67k

Create big empty file (1Gb file)

dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile count=0 seek=2000k  

ssh benchmark - to localhost.

scp bigfile localhost:/dev/null 
for i in aes128-cbc blowfish ; do scp -c  bigfile localhost:/dev/null ; done

default :	83.3MB/s
aes128-cbc :	250.0MB/s
blowfish :	100.0MB/s

encrypted ramdisk test:
size: 500 megabytes, cipher: aes-cbc-essiv:sha256, key: 256b

blocksize	encoding speed	decoding speed
512	272.855	913.500
1k	398.177	1026.858
2k	477.582	1088.748
4k	680.871	1122.122
8k	761.948	1144.054
16k	775.580	1138.355
1M	797.499	1138.249

encrypted ramdisk test (direct i/o for read and write):
size: 8192 megabytes, cipher: aes-cbc-essiv:sha256, key: 256b

blocksize	write speed	read speed	enc speed	dec speed
512	31.988	34.808	25.573	27.344
1k	66.340	69.370	47.381	52.917
2k	131.457	137.257	80.702	98.381
4k	253.627	268.581	132.896	178.275
8k	466.950	492.986	193.475	290.455
16k	820.162	938.741	246.571	429.992
1M	3941.171	6124.264	371.229	812.424

Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1400MHz

Notebook IBM ThinkPad X31 (fall 2004?)

CPU :	family 6, model 9 and stepping 5
model name :	Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1400MHz
cpu MHz :	600.000 or 1400
cache size :	1024 KB
flags :	fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 tm pbe up bts est tm2
bogomips :	1198.97

Intel-Pentium-M-Processor-1_40-GHz-1M-Cache-400-MHz-FSB

Chipset :	Intel Corporation 82855PM
Memory :	1 GB + 512 MB (DDR)
Memory benchmark (hdparm) :	269.10 MB/sec
HD benchmark (hdparm udma5) : (RunCore 128G-C SSD ide)	72.40 MB/sec

SW: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
# openssl version 
OpenSSL 1.0.1 14 Mar 2012 

# openssl engine 
(dynamic) Dynamic engine loading support 

The 'numbers' are in 1000s of bytes per second processed.

type	16 bytes	64 bytes	256 bytes	1024 bytes	8192 bytes
rc4	131978.56k	196359.85k	210219.07k	214243.41k	216174.06k
blowfish cbc	47834.85k	50848.20k	51761.46k	52138.96k	52034.47k
aes-128 cbc	33778.34k	37505.80k	38338.34k	65198.95k	66610.68k

ssh benchmark - to localhost. Here ssh and sshd share the same core.
dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile count=0 seek=200k (100M file)

scp bigfile localhost:/dev/null ; 
for i in aes128-cbc blowfish ; do scp -c $i bigfile localhost:/dev/null ; done
results:

default :	10.0MB/s
aes128-cbc :	14.3MB/s
blowfish :	9.1MB/s

Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU D2700 @ 2.13GHz

2 cores 4 threads

cpu family :	6
model :	54
model name :	Intel(R) Celeron(TM) CPU 1300MHz
stepping :	1
cpu MHz :	2127.782
cache size :	512 KB
flags :	fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm movbe lahf_lm arat dtherm
bogomips :	4255.56

Intel-Atom-Processor-D2700-1M-Cache-2_13-GHz

Motherboard :	Intel D2700MUD
Memory :	4G (DDR3-1066)
Memory benchmark (hdparm) :	983.17 MB/sec
HD benchmark (hdparm udma5) : (Seagate Barracuda 7200.10)	72.92 MB/sec

-> openssl-1.0.1e-2.8.1.i586 

-> openssl engine
(dynamic)
Dynamic engine loading support

The 'numbers' are in 1000s of bytes per second processed.

type	16 bytes	64 bytes	256 bytes	1024 bytes	8192 bytes
rc4	123311.72k	155181.18k	165030.74k	169148.36k	169607.17k
blowfish cbc	67544.75k	73369.81k	74407.94k	74884.78k	75025.07k
aes-128 cbc	18689.19k	19790.61k	20217.77k	20388.22k	20357.12k

Create big empty file (50Mb file)
dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile count=0 seek=100k

ssh benchmark - to localhost. Here ssh and sshd share the same core.
scp bigfile localhost:/dev/null 
for i in aes128-cbc blowfish ; do scp -c $i bigfile localhost:/dev/null ; done

default :	12.5MB/s
aes128-cbc :	17.2MB/s
blowfish :	38.5MB/s

scp outside, 500M file (1000mbit eth0)

aes128-cbc :	22.7MB/s
blowfish :	38.5MB/s

scp from outside, 250M file (1000mbit eth0)

aes128-cbc :	19.2MB/s
blowfish :	35.7MB/s

a really strange figure here:
encrypted ramdisk test:
size: 100 megabytes, cipher: aes-cbc-essiv:sha256, key: 256b

blocksize	encrypting speed	decrypting speed
512	29.568	24.716
1k	33.691	25.472
2k	37.836	25.139
4k	93.480	26.245
8k	109.374	23.976
16k	108.290	23.828
1M	117.300	31.045

encrypted ramdisk test, direct i/o:
size: 2048 megabytes, cipher: aes-cbc-essiv:sha256, key: 256b

blocksize	write speed	read speed	enc speed	dec speed
512	16.672	20.149	7.830	8.491
1k	35.822	38.687	11.703	12.573
2k	70.918	78.992	15.544	16.542
4k	135.669	149.581	18.759	19.656
8k	227.302	265.264	20.574	21.574
16k	346.263	431.303	21.538	22.663
1M	541.263	832.165	23.036	23.453

Intel(R) Celeron(TM) CPU (Tualatin core) 1300MHz

1 core / 1 thread (around year 2000, running non-stop since ~ 04/2004)

cpu family :	6
model :	11
model name :	Intel(R) Celeron(TM) CPU 1300MHz
stepping :	4
cpu MHz :	1309.498
cache size :	256 KB
flags :	fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pse36 mmx fxsr sse up
bogomips :	2618.99
clflush size :	32

Intel-Celeron-Processor-1_30-GHz-256K-Cache-100-MHz-FSB

32 KB L1 cache 256 KB Advanced Transfer L2 cache 100 MHz system bus clock rate Socket 370 Family 6 model 11

Motherboard: MSI 694T-Pro (MS-6309 according to bios)
Chipset: "VIA VT82C693A/694x [Apollo PRO133x]"

Memory :	767MB SDRAM
Memory benchmark (hdparm) :	165.91 MB/sec
HD benchmark (hdparm udma5) : (IBM Deskstar 60GXP 40Gb)	35.76 MB/sec
HD benchmark (hdparm udma5) : (Seagate Barracuda 7200.10)	57.28 MB/sec

openssl-0.9.8k-3.7.1.i586
openssl speed aes-128-cbc rc4 blowfish

The 'numbers' are in 1000s of bytes per second processed.

type	16 bytes	64 bytes	256 bytes	1024 bytes	8192 bytes
rc4	141894.54k	167755.50k	186081.90k	190161.07k	189703.71k
blowfish cbc	43000.64k	45600.45k	46703.74k	46803.29k	46866.43k
aes-128 cbc	36592.98k	49133.81k	53264.20k	54741.19k	54992.90k

openSSH test:

Create big empty file (50Mb file)
dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile count=0 seek=100k

ssh benchmark - to localhost. Here ssh and sshd share the same core.
scp bigfile localhost:/dev/null 
for i in aes128-cbc blowfish ; do scp -c $i bigfile localhost:/dev/null ; done

default :	7.1MB/s
aes128-cbc :	7.1MB/s
blowfish :	8.3MB/s

scp outside (100mbit eth0)

default :

10.0MB/s

encrypted ramdisk test:

blocksize	write speed	read speed	encrypt speed	decrypt speed
512	48.752	80.315	37.797	22.751
1k	68.133	95.378	44.034	23.883
2k	80.849	101.813	48.692	24.399
4k	87.150	108.383	56.020	24.356
8k	90.876	109.777	55.961	24.642
16k	93.908	104.218	57.692	24.337
1M	71.175	79.557	46.268	22.886

size: 100 megabytes, cipher: aes-cbc-essiv:sha256, key: 256b

encrypted ramdisk test, direct i/o:
size: 512 megabytes, cipher: aes-cbc-essiv:sha256, key: 256b

blocksize	write speed	read speed	enc speed	dec speed
512	19.509	20.750	8.965	8.335
1k	35.497	40.224	13.745	13.339
2k	58.883	75.738	18.748	18.679
4k	86.070	135.186	22.778	24.090
8k	109.682	209.433	25.437	27.481
16k	127.376	287.921	26.498	29.327
1M	108.512	160.485	22.972	25.615