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London, UK, September 1, 2008 - SiSoftware releases its suite of Crypto benchmarks as part of the SiSoftware Sandra 2009, the latest version of our award-winning utility, which includes remote analysis, benchmarking and diagnostic features for PCs, servers, and networks.

Cryptography has become an important part of our digital life: it allows us to conduct safe transactions online, certify programs and services, keep our data secure and much more. The speed at which cryptographic operations (encryption, decryption, hashing, signing) can be performed is thus very much important.

While there are many algorithms in use, the most popular are AES (AES128, AES256) for encrypton/decryption and SHA (SHA1, SHA256) for hashing. The new benchmarks measure all of them.

In the past only dedicated security devides had hardware accelerated cryptographic functions; many processors today now support dedicated instructions for such purposes, proving yet again that cryptography has become mainstream.

Key features

• 4 architectures natively supported (x86, x64/AMD64/EM64T, IA64/Itanium², ARM)
• 3 platforms natively supported (Windows, Windows Mobile, Windows CE³)
• 6 languages supported (English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian)
• VIA Padlock Advanced Cryprographic Engine natively supported

Notes:

² By special arrangement; Enterprise versions only.

³ By special arrangement; device SDK required.

Relevant Articles

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• Cryptographic Performance

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About SiSoftware

SiSoftware, founded in 1995, is one of the leading providers of computer analysis, diagnostic and benchmarking software. The flagship product, known as "SANDRA", was launched in 1997 and has become one of the most widely used products in its field. Nearly 700 worldwide IT publications, magazines and review sites use SANDRA to analyse the performance of today's computers. Over 9,000 on-line reviews of computer hardware that use SANDRA are catalogued on our website alone.

Since launch, SiSoftware has always been at the forefront of the technology arena, being among the first providers of benchmarks that show the power of emerging new technologies such as multi-core, GPGPU, OpenCL, DirectCompute, x64, ARM, MIPS, NUMA, SMT (Hyper-Threading), SMP (multi-threading), AVX3, AVX2, AVX, FMA4, FMA, NEON, SSE4.2, SSE4.1, SSSE3, SSE3, SSE2, SSE, Java and .NET.

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