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galymzhan

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Registered: 2010-12-25

Posts: 7

Encryption software which uses GPU?

Is there any software which can encrypt files utilizing GPU cores? I heard it's possible with the Nvidia's CUDA toolkit. Basically, what options do I have if I need a very fast encryption/decryption of large files (gigabytes) without compression?

Yggdrasil

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Registered: 2009-07-21

Posts: 37

Re: Encryption software which uses GPU?

You know, GPGPU isn't something which does everything magically quicker. You're most likely better of using AES-NI.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES_instr … g_software

blackout23

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Registered: 2011-11-16

Posts: 781

Re: Encryption software which uses GPU?

"cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep aes"

If you CPU supports native AES encryption you'll get very high performance letting the CPU do the job.