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author | Andy Polyakov <appro@openssl.org> | 2018-05-19 15:43:11 +0200 |
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committer | Andy Polyakov <appro@openssl.org> | 2018-05-30 18:26:21 +0200 |
commit | 44ca7565a6c73cbff17ee94c9f83b871c8c91445 (patch) | |
tree | 1b095dd1293d432c3adb6e84426a19466763afbd /doc | |
parent | ffcca684ec7bd2d3081a0f5a5befa9972fdd7765 (diff) |
apps/speed.c: add -aead flag.
Goal is to exercise AEAD ciphers in TLS-like sequence, i.e. 13-byte
AAD followed by payload. Update doc/man1/speed.pod accordingly.
[While we are at it, address even some styling and readability issues.]
Reviewed-by: Tim Hudson <tjh@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/6311)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r-- | doc/man1/speed.pod | 14 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man1/speed.pod b/doc/man1/speed.pod index 4f46fac12e..523da0d3b1 100644 --- a/doc/man1/speed.pod +++ b/doc/man1/speed.pod @@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ B<openssl speed> [B<-rand file...>] [B<-writerand file>] [B<-primes num>] +[B<-seconds num>] +[B<-bytes num>] [B<algorithm...>] =head1 DESCRIPTION @@ -42,12 +44,16 @@ for all available algorithms. =item B<-elapsed> -Measure time in real time instead of CPU time. It can be useful when testing -speed of hardware engines. +When calculating operations- or bytes-per-second, use wall-clock time +instead of CPU user time as divisor. It can be useful when testing speed +of hardware engines. =item B<-evp algo> Use the specified cipher or message digest algorithm via the EVP interface. +If B<algo> is an AEAD cipher, then you can pass <-aead> to benchmark a +TLS-like sequence. And if B<algo> is a multi-buffer capable cipher, e.g. +aes-128-cbc-hmac-sha1, then B<-mb> will time multi-buffer operation. =item B<-decrypt> @@ -81,8 +87,8 @@ Run benchmarks on B<num>-byte buffers. Affects ciphers, digests and the CSPRNG. =item B<[zero or more test algorithms]> -If any options are given, B<speed> tests those algorithms, otherwise all of -the above are tested. +If any options are given, B<speed> tests those algorithms, otherwise a +pre-compiled grand selection is tested. =back |