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Date:      Mon, 30 Nov 2015 19:23:48 +0000
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>
To:        Aaron Zauner <azet@azet.org>
Cc:        Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav <des@des.no>, freebsd-security@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Dewayne Geraghty <dewaynegeraghty@gmail.com>, Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@MIT.EDU>
Subject:   Re: OpenSSH HPN
Message-ID:  <20151130192348.GD81246@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net>
In-Reply-To: <20151124212613.4ff9b25ea0@80601bfc61c7744>
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On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 09:29:44PM +0100, Aaron Zauner wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> 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.

We never imported the AES bits as they were broken and AESNI was
available.

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

Both NULL and window-scaling were merged because both are useful in some
environments.

-- Brooks

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