if go fast is broken, the go slow it shall be.  OK

On 2023 Mar 16 (Thu) at 15:28:56 +0100 (+0100), Theo Buehler wrote:
:The AES-CBC implementation is broken on T-4 machines. I reported this
:upstream:
:
:https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues/20523
:
:From grep I suspect that this also affects other AES modes, and also
:DES and Camellia.
:
:Until someone fixes this, I think we should disable the assembly
:optimizations. This makes regress on a T4-2 LDOM stable where with
:assembly optimizations it explodes about 2 out of 3 runs.
:
:It looks like this bug has been around for at least a decade. So maybe
:this is overkill, but when the choice is between reliability and speed
:(if that's the right word for anything related to sparc64), it seems
:clear that reliability should trump, especially when it comes to a
:dependency of a mailserver and a backup utility.
:

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