ChaCha8/12/20 and GEOM ELI tests

rozhuk.im at gmail.com rozhuk.im at gmail.com
Sat Jan 31 02:21:52 UTC 2015


> > > Excuse me, but if you think your physical medium is either 100%
> > > inaccessible to an adversary, or simply not worth a real attack,
> and
> > > the speed is the concern, then why do you want to use any
> encryption
> > > at all?
> >
> > 100% is not available yet introduced GELI keys / mounted drive.
> > AES-XTS is good but too slow.
> 
> You do realize that AES-XTS can get >900MB/sec on md mounted disks when
> AES-NI is available?  and that is single cpu...  Make sure you're
> running 10 or later...
> 

650 MB/sec on AMD 5350 with AES-NI.
540 MB/sec on same CPU - ChaCha8
480 MB/sec - ChaCha12
140 MB/sec - AES without AES-NI.


I have only ONE CPU with AES-NI.
Also, non x86 CPU does not have AES-NI.




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