Did you know that the wolfSSL embedded SSL/TLS library supports ARMv8 as well as the Cryptography Extensions that it provides?  wolfSSL is more than 10 times faster with AES and SHA256 operations the ARMv8 board we have been testing on (HiKey LeMaker) when using hardware acceleration versus software crypto!

ARMv8 Benchmark Data comparing Software and Hardware Cryptography

Algorithm	Software Cryptography	Hardware Cryptography
RNG	16.761 MB/s	82.599 MB/s
AES-128-CBC-enc	26.491 MB/s	649.179 MB/s
AES-128-CBC-dec	26.915 MB/s	607.407 MB/s
AES-192-CBC-enc	22.796 MB/s	566.717 MB/s
AES-192-CBC-dec	23.130 MB/s	553.092 MB/s
AES-256-CBC-enc	20.004 MB/s	504.143 MB/s
AES-256-CBC-dec	20.207 MB/s	491.374 MB/s
AES-128-GCM-enc	6.224 MB/s	393.407 MB/s
AES-128-GCM-dec	6.226 MB/s	182.279 MB/s
AES-192-GCM-enc	5.895 MB/s	361.801 MB/s
AES-192-GCM-dec	5.895 MB/s	175.676 MB/s
AES-256-GCM-enc	5.609 MB/s	333.911 MB/s
AES-256-GCM-dec	5.610 MB/s	169.085 MB/s
CHACHA	60.510 MB/s	60.017 MB/s
CHA-POLY	41.805 MB/s	41.410 MB/s
MD5	156.310 MB/s	154.421 MB/s
POLY1305	144.464 MB/s	143.058 MB/s
SHA	89.874 MB/s	89.154 MB/s
SHA-256	38.805 MB/s	533.139 MB/s
HMAC-MD5	156.301 MB/s	154.083 MB/s
HMAC-SHA	89.859 MB/s	89.045 MB/s
HMAC-SHA256	38.814 MB/s	532.316 MB/s
RSA, 2048, public	171.995 Ops/s	171.355 Ops/s
RSA, 2048, private	13.716 Ops/s	13.686 Ops/s
DH, 2048, key generation	50.831 Ops/s	50.575 Ops/s
DH, 2048, agree	41.826 Ops/s	41.596 Ops/s

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