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+ o Major features (performance):
+ - When built to use the newly OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or
+ x86_64 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced,
+ or vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be
+ much, much faster than other AES implementations.
+