AES acceleration for Java

Question

I want to encrypt/decrypt lots of small (2-10kB) pieces of data. The performance is ok for now: On a Core2Duo, I get about 90 MBytes/s AES256 (when using 2 threads). But I m

Answer 1

You can benefit from improved AES speeds by using SunPKCS11 security provider together with mozilla-nss library.

Setup is described at

• Improved Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) Crypto performance on Java with NSS using Intel® AES-NI Instructions
• and JavaTM PKCS#11 Reference Guide