Does Bouncy Castle support AES native instructions (AES-NI)?

[wschlich]

This document suggests that BC does not:

• Provider library choice significantly impacts results. The choice of encryption provider library and AES mode had the largest impact on performance. While Bouncy Castle showed no appreciable improvement with respect to Intel® AES-NI, the NSS library with Intel® AES-NI enabled performed more than 78% faster than Bouncy Castle and is the obvious choice for encryption. For decryption, NSS was approximately 96% faster than Bouncy Castle and 90% faster than SunJCE.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/healthcare-it/solutions/documents/aes-ni-boosts-security-and-performance-genospace-study.html

[bcgit]

Correct, we don't at the moment, either in the FIPS or general stream. We are a pure Java solution.

There's no reason we couldn't (I guess) dealing with it is simply a time/funding problem.

[wschlich]

Too bad :( Thanks for responding!