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Re:Contour: Modern and Fast Terminal Emulator by Tempest1981 on Sunday October 08, 2023 @10:26AM (#37810752)
How do I check if my older CPU has AES-NI?

> Requirements: CPU: x86-64 AMD or Intel with AES-NI instruction set or ARMv8 with crypto extensions.

Edit: maybe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES_instruction_set#Intel

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Re:Contour: Modern and Fast Terminal Emulator by SushiHippie on Sunday October 08, 2023 @10:50AM (#37810972)
The lscpu command will you show you. IIUC you need to have "aes" under the flags entry.
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Re:Contour: Modern and Fast Terminal Emulator by trapnii on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @02:28AM (#37829100)
We finally have a software-fallback, and do not hard-depend on AES-NI anymore. But if it's present, we'll use it (also its equivalent on ARM64)
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