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Date:      Tue, 10 Nov 2015 16:32:04 -0800
From:      Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org>
To:        John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com>, =?UTF-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=c3=b8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: OpenSSH HPN
Message-ID:  <56428C84.8050600@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20151110175216.GN65715@funkthat.com>
References:  <86io5a9ome.fsf@desk.des.no> <20151110175216.GN65715@funkthat.com>

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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.

-- 
Regards,
Bryan Drewery



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