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Unexpected Uses for the Galois Field Affine Transformation Instruction

Intel added the Galois Field instruction set (GFNI) extensions to their Sunny Cove and Tremont cores. What’s particularly interesting is that GFNI is the only new SIMD extension that came with SSE and VEX/AVX encodings (in addition to EVEX/AVX512), to allow it to be supported on all future Intel cores, including those which don’t support AVX512 (such as the Atom line, as well as Celeron/Pentium branded “big” cores).

I suspect GFNI was aimed at accelerating SM4 encryption, however, one of the instructions can be used for many other purposes. The extension includes three instructions, but of particular interest here is the Affine Transformation (GF2P8AFFINEQB), aka bit-matrix multiply, instruction.

There have been various articles which discuss out-of-band

The repository for the assignment is public and Github does not allow the creation of private forks for public repositories.

The correct way of creating a private frok by duplicating the repo is documented here.

For this assignment the commands are:

Create a bare clone of the repository. (This is temporary and will be removed so just do it wherever.)

git clone --bare git@github.com:usi-systems/easytrace.git

	# source:http://geocities.com/SiliconValley/heights/7052/opcode.txt
	From: mark@omnifest.uwm.edu (Mark Hopkins)
	Newsgroups: alt.lang.asm
	Subject: A Summary of the 80486 Opcodes and Instructions

	(1) The 80x86 is an Octal Machine
	This is a follow-up and revision of an article posted in alt.lang.asm on
	7-5-92 concerning the 80x86 instruction encoding.

	The only proper way to understand 80x86 coding is to realize that ALL 80x86

	namespace System.Collections.ObjectModel
	{
	// Licensed to the .NET Foundation under one or more agreements.
	// The .NET Foundation licenses this file to you under the MIT license.
	// See the LICENSE file in the project root for more information.

	using System.Collections.Generic;
	using System.Collections.Specialized;
	using System.ComponentModel;
	using System.Diagnostics;