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2018 Sep 21
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AES-GCM with AES-NI
....c lines 494 to 502
“
/*
* For now we preferr CCM because our implementation
* is faster than GCM, see bug #11451.
*/
if (aes_128_ccm_supported) {
xconn->smb2.server.cipher = SMB2_ENCRYPTION_AES128_CCM;
} else if (aes_128_gcm_supported) {
xconn->smb2.server.cipher = SMB2_ENCRYPTION_AES128_GCM;
}
“
This implies that GCM is not used unless as a fallback. The bug is titled
Poor SMB3 encryption performance with AES-GCM
This implies the bug is with software implementation of GCM.
The “patch” appears to simply bypass the usage of AES-GCM, instead of fixing it.
The implementation of GCM ha...