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Date:      Tue, 24 Nov 2015 21:29:44 +0100
From:      Aaron Zauner <azet@azet.org>
To:        Dag-Erling =?utf-8?B?U23DuHJncmF2?= <des@des.no>
Cc:        Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@MIT.EDU>, freebsd-security@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Dewayne Geraghty <dewaynegeraghty@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: OpenSSH HPN
Message-ID:  <20151124212613.4ff9b25ea0@80601bfc61c7744>
In-Reply-To: <86egfu9z0j.fsf@desk.des.no>
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Hi,

Please forgive my ignorance but what's the reason FreeBSD ships
OpenSSH patched with HPN by default? Besides my passion for
security, I've been working in the HPC sector for a while and
benchmarked the patch for a customer about 1.5 years ago. The
CTR-multi threading patch is actually *slower* than upstream OpenSSH
with AES in CTR mode. GCM being, of course, the fastest mode on
AESNI plattforms.

The NULL mode is a security concern as some have noted, I can only
imagine that the window-scaling patch is of such importance?

Thanks,
Aaron

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