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