From owner-freebsd-security@freebsd.org Wed Nov 11 01:41:16 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-security@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EE1DA2A80F; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 01:41:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmg@gold.funkthat.com) Received: from gold.funkthat.com (gate2.funkthat.com [208.87.223.18]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "gold.funkthat.com", Issuer "gold.funkthat.com" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2E46E1F28; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 01:41:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmg@gold.funkthat.com) Received: from gold.funkthat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gold.funkthat.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id tAB1f3bl094633 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 10 Nov 2015 17:41:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmg@gold.funkthat.com) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by gold.funkthat.com (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id tAB1f2pm094632; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 17:41:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmg) Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 17:41:02 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney To: Bryan Drewery Cc: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: OpenSSH HPN Message-ID: <20151111014102.GQ65715@funkthat.com> References: <86io5a9ome.fsf@desk.des.no> <20151110175216.GN65715@funkthat.com> <56428C84.8050600@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <56428C84.8050600@FreeBSD.org> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 9.1-PRERELEASE amd64 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 54BA 873B 6515 3F10 9E88 9322 9CB1 8F74 6D3F A396 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ X-Resume: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/resume.html X-TipJar: bitcoin:13Qmb6AeTgQecazTWph4XasEsP7nGRbAPE X-to-the-FBI-CIA-and-NSA: HI! HOW YA DOIN? can i haz chizburger? User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (gold.funkthat.com [127.0.0.1]); Tue, 10 Nov 2015 17:41:03 -0800 (PST) X-BeenThere: freebsd-security@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: "Security issues \[members-only posting\]" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 01:41:16 -0000 Bryan Drewery wrote this message on Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 16:32 -0800: > On 11/10/15 9:52 AM, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > > My vote is to remove the HPN patches. First, the NONE cipher made more > > sense back when we didn't have AES-NI widely available, and you were > > seriously limited by it's performance. Now we have both aes-gcm and > > chacha-poly which it's performance should be more than acceptable for > > today's uses (i.e. cipher performance is 2GB/sec+). > > AES-NI doesn't help the absurdity of double-encrypting when using scp or > rsync/ssh over an encrypted VPN, which is where NONE makes sense to use > for me. Different layers of protection... Do you disable all encryption when you're transiting trusted networks like your VPN? If you don't, why is that ssh session so special? -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."