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Hello,

> > on systems lacking AES-NI support critical strongswan processes (charon,
> > swanctl) get terminated by SIGILL in libstrongswan-aesni.so.
> 
> The plugin definitely checks for AES-NI and PCLMULQDQ at runtime.  But
> what it did not do so far is check for SSSE3 (the next release will do
> so).  So are you running on a CPU that has AES-NI and PCLMULQDQ
> instructions but lacks support for SSSE3?  Maybe virtualized?
 
No, it is a real i686 CPU. No SSE and definitely no AES-NI.

> It's loaded but it doesn't register any plugin features if the required
> CPU features are not found.  So it shouldn't cause any SIGILL when
> running on unsuitable hardware (except in the combination mentioned above).

Then it must be something else, even before it tries to encrypt anything.
Yes, even swanctl --help crashes with SIGILL when swanctl.load="aesni".


Best,
n.b.f.

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