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Alejandro Abdelnur commented on HDFS-6606:
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[~hitliuyi], it is great you are taking on this, looking forward to see the
patch.
For now I have a question, any reason not to do the same for the Hadoop RPC
encryption?
> Optimize encryption support in DataTransfer Protocol with High performance
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> Key: HDFS-6606
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-6606
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: datanode, hdfs-client, security
> Affects Versions: 3.0.0
> Reporter: Yi Liu
> Assignee: Yi Liu
> Fix For: 3.0.0
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> In HDFS-3637, [~atm] added support for encrypting the DataTransferProtocol,
> it was a great work.
> It utilizes SASL {{Digest-MD5}} mechanism, it supports three security
> strength:
> * high 3des or rc4 (126bits)
> * medium des or rc4(56bits)
> * low rc4(40bits)
> 3des and rc4 are slow, only *tens of MB/s*,
> http://www.javamex.com/tutorials/cryptography/ciphers.shtml
> http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~jain/cse567-06/ftp/encryption_perf/
> I will give more detailed performance data in future. Absolutely it’s
> bottleneck and will vastly affect the end to end performance.
> AES(Advanced Encryption Standard) is recommended as a replacement of DES,
> it’s more secure; with AES-NI support, the throughput can reach nearly
> *2GB/s*, it won’t be the bottleneck any more, AES and CryptoCodec work is
> supported in HADOOP-10150, HADOOP-10603 and HADOOP-10693 (We may need to add
> a new mode support for AES).
> This JIRA will use AES with AES-NI support as encryption algorithm for
> DataTransferProtocol.
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