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AEGIS is a new family of authenticated encryption algorithms that offers
stronger security, higher usage limits, and better performance than AES-GCM.
This pull request adds support for a new `-aegis` command-line flag, allowing
AEGIS-128X2 to be used as an alternative to AES-GCM on CPUs with AES acceleration.
It also introduces the ability to use ciphers with different key sizes.
More information on AEGIS is available here:
- https://cfrg.github.io/draft-irtf-cfrg-aegis-aead/draft-irtf-cfrg-aegis-aead.html
- https://github.com/cfrg/draft-irtf-cfrg-aegis-aead
gocryptfs -speed speed on Apple M1:
AES-GCM-256-OpenSSL              3718.79 MB/s
AES-GCM-256-Go                   5083.43 MB/s   (selected in auto mode)
AES-SIV-512-Go                    625.20 MB/s
XChaCha20-Poly1305-OpenSSL       1358.63 MB/s   (selected in auto mode)
XChaCha20-Poly1305-Go             832.11 MB/s
Aegis128X2-Go                   11818.73 MB/s
gocryptfs -speed speed on AMD Zen 4:
AES-GCM-256-OpenSSL              5215.86 MB/s
AES-GCM-256-Go                   6918.01 MB/s   (selected in auto mode)
AES-SIV-512-Go                    449.61 MB/s
XChaCha20-Poly1305-OpenSSL       2643.48 MB/s
XChaCha20-Poly1305-Go            3727.46 MB/s   (selected in auto mode)
Aegis128X2-Go                   28109.92 MB/s
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