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Bug 712262

Summary: net-fs/samba: Add AES (aesni) acceleration support
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Sam James <sam>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Gentoo's SAMBA Team <samba>
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE    
Severity: enhancement Keywords: PullRequest
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
See Also: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/14939
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Description Sam James archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2020-03-12 18:03:45 UTC
Samba supports using AES acceleration instructions (at least Intel's aesni).
It can be enabled with './configure --accel-aes=aesni'.
Comment 1 Sam James archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2020-03-12 18:56:26 UTC
This doesn't seem to be useful, actually.

In this presentation [0], it's shown that gnutls + aesni if available is preferred, and there is a warning about using aesni in the source, so I'll close this.

https://sambaxp.org/archive-data-samba/SambaXP2019-SLIDES/andreas_schneider_samba_in_love_with_gnutls.pdf