[Bug 1602655] Re: The openssl s390x assembly pack is not used

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------- Comment From heinz-werner_seeck at de.ibm.com 2016-07-22 07:52 EDT-------
Changed distro target to 16.10 . But this fix should also be SRUed to 16.04.1 due to the performance impacts !

** Tags removed: targetmilestone-inin16041
** Tags added: targetmilestone-inin1610

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Title:
  The openssl s390x assembly pack is not used

Status in Ubuntu on IBM z Systems:
  Confirmed
Status in openssl package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in openssl source package in Xenial:
  New

Bug description:
  The openssl s390x assembly code is not available, causing a fallback to openssl internal C-code.
  The performance degradation is up to a factor 4 for asymmetric (RSA, ...)  and a factor >10 for symmetric cipher like SHA & AES.

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