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Howcan I check if my CPU supports the AES-NI instruction set under Linux/UNIX.

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Look in /proc/cpuinfo. If you have the aes flag then your CPU has AES support.

You can use this command:

grep aes /proc/cpuinfo

If you have some output, which will be like

flags : a bunch of flags aes another bunch of flags

,then you have AES.

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could someone test that having a cpu that has aes-ni? e.g.: what is the exact output? grep aes /proc/cpuinfo OR grep aes-ni /proc/cpuinfo ? thank you! – LanceBaynes May 31 '11 at 6:29
@Lance I'm not sure if AES and AES-NI are two different things. They look the same for me. Maybe you can see the other flags in /proc/cpuinfo. – phunehehe May 31 '11 at 7:21
@LanceBaynes Yes, I can confirm with a i5 cpu. Screenshot – warl0ck May 8 '12 at 12:28
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Here's the list. There are 247 CPU models with that feature. With Linux, you can check by looking for the aes flag in /proc/cpuinfo. Or you can check what model you have against this list.

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to @Lance

 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5630  @ 2.53GHz

with AES-NI support from Intel ark list

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo| grep aes
flags: ***** aes *****
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