> -----Original Message----- > From: Jarod Wilson [mailto:jarod@xxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 1:17 PM > > On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 11:48:08PM -0500, Timothy McCaffrey wrote: > > These patches fix the RFC4106 implementation in the aesni-intel module so > it > > supports 192 & 256 bit keys. > > > > Since the AVX support that was added to this module also only supports > 128 bit keys, > > and this patch only affects the SSE implementation, changes were also > made to > > use the SSE version if key sizes other than 128 are specified. > > > > RFC4106 specifies that 192 & 256 bit keys must be supported (section 8.4). > > > > Also, this should fix Strongswan issue 341 where the aesni module needs to > be > > unloaded if 256 bit keys are used: > > > > http://wiki.strongswan.org/issues/341 > > > > This patch has been tested with Sandy Bridge and Haswell processors. With > 128 > > bit keys and input buffers > 512 bytes a slight performance degradation > was > > noticed (~1%). For input buffers of less than 512 bytes there was no > > performance impact. Compared to 128 bit keys, 256 bit key size > performance > > is approx. .5 cycles per byte slower on Sandy Bridge, and .37 cycles per > > byte slower on Haswell (vs. SSE code). > > > > This patch has also been tested with StrongSwan IPSec connections where > it > > worked correctly. > > > > I created this diff from a git clone of crypto-2.6.git. > > > > Any questions, please feel free to contact me. > > > > Signed off by: timothy.mccaffrey@xxxxxxxxxx > > Here's an unborked version that applies cleanly to linus' master right > now. Somehow, tons of extra spaces made their way into the original > (re-)submission, I just stripped them out (and fixed up a few extra > trailing spaces and spaces before tabs). > > Signed-off-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@xxxxxxxxxx> > Thanks - Tim -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
