linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 10/12] RISC-V: crypto: add Zvkned accelerated AES encryption implementation

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Date:   Mon, 11 Sep 2023 21:06:47 +0800
From:   Jerry Shih <jerry.shih@...ive.com>
To:     Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
Cc:     Heiko Stuebner <heiko@...ech.de>, palmer@...belt.com,
        paul.walmsley@...ive.com, aou@...s.berkeley.edu,
        herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, davem@...emloft.net,
        conor.dooley@...rochip.com, linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
        christoph.muellner@...ll.eu,
        Heiko Stuebner <heiko.stuebner@...ll.eu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 10/12] RISC-V: crypto: add Zvkned accelerated AES
 encryption implementation

On Jul 21, 2023, at 13:40, Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org> wrote:

> I'm looking forward to having direct support for these AES modes, especially the
> modes needed for storage encryption: XTS, and CBC or CTS!  None of these AES
> modes is actually implemented in this patch yet, though, so they can't be
> claimed in the kconfig help text yet.  This patch is just a starting point, as
> it just adds support for the bare AES block cipher ("aes" in the crypto API).
> 
> (BTW, I'm much more interested in, say, AES-XTS support than SM4 support, which
> this patchset does include.  SM4 is a "national pride cipher" which is somewhat
> of a niche thing.  I suppose there are already people pushing it for RISC-V
> though, as they are everywhere else, so that's to be expected...)
> 

We have further optimization for RISC-V platform in OpenSSL PR[1]. It will include
AES with CBC, CTR, and XTS mode. Comparing to the generic AES implementation,
the specialized AES-XTS one have about 3X performance improvement using
OpenSSL benchmark tool. If OpenSSL accepts that PR, we will create the
corresponding patch for Linux kernel.

[1]
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/21923

-Jerry