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Date:      Sat, 13 Sep 2014 09:35:19 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@puchar.net>
To:        Jim Thompson <jim@netgate.com>
Cc:        John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com>, "hackers@freebsd.org" <hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: openssl with aes-in or padlock
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1409130935020.18147@wojtek.dom>
In-Reply-To: <62E8AD7E-346F-4F77-9628-6D5121D7AD6D@netgate.com>
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will it be available on FreeBSD 10 ?

On Thu, 11 Sep 2014, Jim Thompson wrote:

> We just fixed IPSEC to use AES-GCM (with support for AES-NI on hardware that supports it.)
>
> OpenSSL / OpenVPN is probably next.
>
> -- Jim
>
> On Sep 11, 2014, at 14:33, Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@puchar.net> wrote:
>
>>>> #openssl speed -evp aes-256-cbc
>>>
>>> First off, you won't get much speed up w/ CBC encrypt...  Try testing
>>> using aes-256-ctr instead...  CBC can't process multiple blocks in
>>> parallel like CTR can...  if you measure the cbc _decrypt_ speed, you
>>> should see a big improvement as CBC decrypt can be parallelized...
>>>
>>>> in the same time dd from geli encrypted ramdisk to /dev/null is 66MB/s
>>>
>>> geli uses a different framework for it's crypto processing.. for geli,
>>> make sure you have the aesni kernel module loaded before you attach
>>> to a geli disk...  You should get kernel messages like the following:
>>> GEOM_ELI: Device gpt/werner.eli created.
>>> GEOM_ELI: Encryption: AES-XTS 256
>>> GEOM_ELI:     Crypto: hardware
>>
>> yes i have this. contrary to what you say - both AES-XTC and AES-CBC gets MUCH faster with AES-NI.
>>
>>> notice the Crypto: hardware line..  Also, make sure that your geli
>>> sector size is 4k instead of 512...  This reduces the loop overhead,
>>
>> as i already said - geli works fast and make use of AES-NI or padlock
>>
>> openssl does not
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