My computers: 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.

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

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

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

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