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by zodzedzi 993 days ago
For anyone else who was also seeing just garbled characters in the title, and since the first few paragraphs of the linked article don't explain what that is:

GF2P8AFFINEQB is one of the AVX-512 CPU instructions that performs an affine transformation (essentially AX+b) on a Galois field - finite number fields used in coding theory and cryptography.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVX-512#GFNI

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Funny enough when I saw the gobbledygook, I immediately thought to myself this looks like an AVX instruction.