Pure AES implementation

[notgne2]

Is there going to be a pure/Rust-only (no embedded assembly) option for AES?

[Ragnaroek]

I think not in the near future, because performance would be very slow with a pure software AES implementation.

The nice thing would be that the miner works on all platform Rust can be compiled to, but this would still be slow.

Next on the roadmap is proabably ARM support. Are you asking with that architecture in mind?

[TheRadioGuy]

@Ragnaroek why mithril can't use AES crate? It supports Hardware AES.

[Ragnaroek]

@DuckerMan Yes, that would be an option. Maybe this crate didn't exist when mithril was created? But I will first implement RandomX before considering this.

[marcohoovy]

isn't this crate hazmat? (AES)