Did you get the sense people with the relevant skill were open to a bounty
for implementing the necessary fixes?


On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Jim Thompson <[email protected]> wrote:

> I was at the FreeBSD Vendor Summit last week, and raised the AES-NI
> issue as "important to be solved in the next six months".
>
> The issue and fix are understood, it just needs someone to implement
> it (and then, presumably, backport it to 8.3, so we can release an
> update to 2.1 (2.1.1 or similar).
>
> Jim
>
> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Thinker Rix <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> >
> > On 2013-11-06 07:53, Thinker Rix wrote:
> >>
> >> as I am planning to buy new hardware for pfSense, I was wondering if it
> is
> >> worthy to buy a CPU that supports "AES new instructions", i.e.
> >> hardware-support for AES encyption.
> >
> >
> > As I learned in this thread (big thanks to everybody participating),
> AES-NI
> > is adding no value to pfSense currently, at all. So currently the only
> > solution is to throw GHz at the problem.
> >
> > Searching myself through the web to learn what CPU speed I would need to
> > achieve my desired 450 MBit/s VPN (or come at least somewhat close to
> this
> > theoretical max), I found this:
> >
> http://forums.freenas.org/threads/encryption-performance-benchmarks.12157/
> > I copied those measurements found there into a spreadsheet so to analyze
> > those values. If anybody is interested in this spreadsheet (.ods), I can
> > send it to him via private mail (I guess binaries are not allowed in the
> > mailing list). Just drop me a message.
> >
> >
> > Regards
> > Thinker Rix
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