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Hmm. I was definitely oversimplifying, but if I need AES-256-GCM, how do I choose between OpenSSL and LibTom? (If you have particular insight into the strength of LibTom's GCM table acceleration implementation, I'm quite curious.)

What multiplication factor on "very" careful do I need to be with OpenSSL? :)

edit: Maybe I should've posted this link[0], because tables vs CLMUL is a little more complicated than that.

[0] https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/issues/846



IIRC, LibTom is table-driven, and OpenSSL will use CLMUL, so I'd have to give GCM to OpenSSL.




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