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Add ARMv8/AArch64 implementation of chacha20

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Add ARMv8/AArch64 implementation of chacha20

* cipher/Makefile.am: Add 'chacha20-aarch64.S'.
* cipher/chacha20-aarch64.S: New.
* cipher/chacha20.c (USE_AARCH64_SIMD): New.
(_gcry_chacha20_aarch_blocks4): New.
(chacha20_do_setkey): Add HWF selection for Aarch64 implementation.
* configure.ac: Add 'chacha20-aarch64.lo'.

Benchmark on Cortex-A53 (1152 Mhz):

Before:
CHACHA20 | nanosecs/byte mebibytes/sec cycles/byte

STREAM enc |      7.91 ns/B     120.6 MiB/s      9.11 c/B
STREAM dec |      7.91 ns/B     120.6 MiB/s      9.11 c/B

After (1.66x faster):
CHACHA20 | nanosecs/byte mebibytes/sec cycles/byte

STREAM enc |      4.74 ns/B     201.2 MiB/s      5.46 c/B
STREAM dec |      4.74 ns/B     201.3 MiB/s      5.46 c/B
  • Signed-off-by: Jussi Kivilinna <jussi.kivilinna@iki.fi>

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jukiviliAuthored on Jan 6 2018, 5:58 PM
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rC172ad09cbedc: New ChaCha implementations
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