- no-intrinsics AES: S-box = GF(2^8) inverse via a fixed-exponent power ladder
(constant-time in the input, no tables), constant-time gf8_mul, byte-oriented
ShiftRows/MixColumns/key-expansion (AES-128 and AES-256)
- constant-time GHASH: bit-by-bit GF(2^128) multiply (mask-driven, no tables)
- aes_gcm_seal/open now dispatch: AES-NI path when present (and not forced
software), else this portable fallback -> AES-GCM works on ANY CPU, so the
phase-B no-AES-NI trap is retired
- wo_aes_force_software test hook; both hw and sw paths verified against NIST
SP 800-38D cases 4 (AES-128) and 16 (AES-256) byte-for-byte; test_crypto 48/0;
ASan/UBSan clean; full runtime battery green
- ARMv8 crypto-extension hardware path deferred (untestable on x86-64 host)
(cherry picked from commit dccf650899798401a9adac8489f34c85ed9304af)
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