Message 272763 - Python tracker
Message272763
| Author | christian.heimes |
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| Recipients | alex, christian.heimes, dstufft, giampaolo.rodola, janssen |
| Date | 2016-08-15.13:55:07 |
| SpamBayes Score | -1.0 |
| Marked as misclassified | Yes |
| Message-id | <1471269307.92.0.240465818653.issue27768@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> |
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OpenSSL has a function called OPENSSL_ia32cap_loc() to get the processor's capability vector in X86 and X86_64 systems. The information is useful to decide which cipher suite to prefer. For example on machines without AES-NI and CLMUL CPU instructions, ChaCha20 should be prefered over AES-GCM. https://www.openssl.org/docs/man1.0.2/crypto/OPENSSL_ia32cap_loc.html #27766 just exposes the plain OPENSSL_ia32cap_loc(). A richer API should parse the bit field and expose the bits as structure. |
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| Date | User | Action | Args |
| 2016-08-15 13:55:07 | christian.heimes | set | recipients: + christian.heimes, janssen, giampaolo.rodola, alex, dstufft |
| 2016-08-15 13:55:07 | christian.heimes | set | messageid: <1471269307.92.0.240465818653.issue27768@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> |
| 2016-08-15 13:55:07 | christian.heimes | link | issue27768 messages |
| 2016-08-15 13:55:07 | christian.heimes | create | |