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Tempest1981 on Oct 8, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Contour: Modern and fast terminal emulator

How do I check if my older CPU has AES-NI?

> Requirements: CPU: x86-64 AMD or Intel with AES-NI instruction set or ARMv8 with crypto extensions.

Edit: maybe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES_instruction_set#Intel

SushiHippie on Oct 8, 2023 | [–]

The lscpu command will you show you. IIUC you need to have "aes" under the flags entry.

trapnii on Oct 10, 2023 | [–]

We finally have a software-fallback, and do not hard-depend on AES-NI anymore. But if it's present, we'll use it (also its equivalent on ARM64)

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