Intel AES-NI

E163102

Intel technology instruction set extension

Intel AES-NI is a set of hardware instructions introduced by Intel to accelerate and secure AES encryption and decryption operations in modern processors.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
AES-NI	4
Intel AES-NI canonical	2
Intel Advanced Encryption Standard New Instructions	1

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Intel technology ⓘ instruction set extension ⓘ
abbreviation	Intel AES-NI self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: AES-NI
appliesToAlgorithm	Advanced Encryption Standard ⓘ
category	cryptographic instruction set ⓘ hardware acceleration ⓘ
compatibleWith	Linux kernel crypto API ⓘ OpenSSL ⓘ Windows CryptoAPI ⓘ
detectedBy	CPUID instruction ⓘ
developer	Intel Corporation ⓘ surface form: Intel
featureFlag	AES ⓘ
fullName	Intel AES-NI self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Intel Advanced Encryption Standard New Instructions
improves	AES latency ⓘ AES throughput ⓘ
includesInstruction	AESDEC ⓘ AESDECLAST ⓘ AESENC ⓘ AESENCLAST ⓘ AESIMC ⓘ AESKEYGENASSIST ⓘ
influenced	hardware AES support in other CPU architectures ⓘ
introducedByMicroarchitecture	Westmere ⓘ
introducedYear	2010 ⓘ
purpose	accelerate AES decryption ⓘ accelerate AES encryption ⓘ improve security of AES implementations ⓘ
reduces	CPU cycles per AES block ⓘ side-channel attack surface compared to some software AES implementations ⓘ
relatedTo	Intel AVX ⓘ Intel SHA Extensions ⓘ
securityBenefit	helps mitigate cache-timing attacks on AES compared to some software-only implementations ⓘ reduces need for table-based AES implementations ⓘ
specifiedIn	Intel Architecture Software Developer’s Manual ⓘ surface form: Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer’s Manual
standardizedIn	x86 ISA extensions ⓘ
supportedByVendor	Advanced Micro Devices ⓘ surface form: AMD
supportsKeySize	128-bit AES ⓘ 192-bit AES ⓘ 256-bit AES ⓘ
targetArchitecture	x86 ⓘ x86-64 ⓘ
usedFor	TLS/SSL acceleration ⓘ VPN encryption ⓘ disk encryption ⓘ
usedIn	Intel Atom ⓘ surface form: Intel Atom processors Intel Core processor family ⓘ surface form: Intel Core processors Intel Xeon ⓘ surface form: Intel Xeon processors

Referenced by (7)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Intel Xeon → supportsFeature → Intel AES-NI ⓘ

Goldmont → supports → Intel AES-NI ⓘ

Goldmont Plus → supports → Intel AES-NI ⓘ

this entity surface form: AES-NI

Tremont → supports → Intel AES-NI ⓘ

this entity surface form: AES-NI

Gracemont → supportsInstructionSetExtension → Intel AES-NI ⓘ

this entity surface form: AES-NI

Intel AES-NI → fullName → Intel AES-NI self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Intel Advanced Encryption Standard New Instructions

Intel AES-NI → abbreviation → Intel AES-NI self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: AES-NI