[SOLVED] AES-NI not working? => nope all ok

[minime]

Hi,

I tried now with Chrome and IE, but the board seems to have an issue with the toolbar...I can't make use of it and can't format or insert a picture...sorry about that.

It seems that AES-NI is not working, what am I doing wrong?

I have the following system:

Versions   OPNsense 16.1.20-amd64
FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE-p19
OpenSSL 1.0.2h 3 May 2016

CPU Type   Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-5200U CPU @ 2.20GHz (4 cores)

I set the "Cryptographic Hardware Acceleration" option to "AES-NI CPU-based Acceleration (aesni)" unter >System>Settings>Miscellaneous

root@OPNsense:~ # /usr/bin/openssl engine -t
(rsax) RSAX engine support
     [ available ]
(rdrand) Intel RDRAND engine
     [ available ]
(dynamic) Dynamic engine loading support
     [ unavailable ]

root@OPNsense:~ # openssl speed -evp aes-128-cbc
Doing aes-128-cbc for 3s on 16 size blocks: 89939962 aes-128-cbc's in 2.99s
Doing aes-128-cbc for 3s on 64 size blocks: 25695979 aes-128-cbc's in 3.01s
Doing aes-128-cbc for 3s on 256 size blocks: 6574131 aes-128-cbc's in 3.02s
Doing aes-128-cbc for 3s on 1024 size blocks: 1656024 aes-128-cbc's in 3.02s
Doing aes-128-cbc for 3s on 8192 size blocks: 206741 aes-128-cbc's in 3.02s
OpenSSL 1.0.1p-freebsd 9 Jul 2015
built on: date not available
options:bn(64,64) rc4(16x,int) des(idx,cisc,16,int) aes(partial) idea(int) blowfish(idx)
compiler: clang
The 'numbers' are in 1000s of bytes per second processed.
type             16 bytes     64 bytes    256 bytes   1024 bytes   8192 bytes
aes-128-cbc     480932.23k   546757.04k   558085.82k   560874.36k   561615.68k

[franco]

Hi minime,

What would lead you to think AES-NI is not working?

Some general hints here:

1) AES-NI kernel module is not used by OpenSSL, it's built into the assembler commands into the envelope mode (-evp). There is no engine support. Same for LibreSSL.

2) The binary that OPNsense uses is /usr/local/bin/openssl, as FreeBSD comes with a base OpenSSL under /usr/local/bin which cannot easily be removed / switched to LibreSSL. Therefore we use the crypto Library from the FreeBSD ports instead.

Here's my dump:

# /usr/local/bin/openssl speed -evp aes-128-cbc
Doing aes-128-cbc for 3s on 16 size blocks: 46675878 aes-128-cbc's in 3.01s
Doing aes-128-cbc for 3s on 64 size blocks: 15835897 aes-128-cbc's in 3.02s
Doing aes-128-cbc for 3s on 256 size blocks: 4955092 aes-128-cbc's in 3.02s
Doing aes-128-cbc for 3s on 1024 size blocks: 1326968 aes-128-cbc's in 3.02s
Doing aes-128-cbc for 3s on 8192 size blocks: 167984 aes-128-cbc's in 3.02s
OpenSSL 1.0.2h  3 May 2016
built on: reproducible build, date unspecified
options:bn(64,64) md2(int) rc4(8x,int) des(idx,cisc,16,int) aes(partial) idea(int) blowfish(idx)
compiler: cc -I. -I.. -I../include  -fPIC -DOPENSSL_PIC -DOPENSSL_THREADS -pthread -D_THREAD_SAFE -D_REENTRANT -DDSO_DLFCN -DHAVE_DLFCN_H -DL_ENDIAN -O3 -Wall -O2 -pipe  -fstack-protector -fno-strict-aliasing -DOPENSSL_IA32_SSE2 -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_MONT -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_MONT5 -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_GF2m -DSHA1_ASM -DSHA256_ASM -DSHA512_ASM -DMD5_ASM -DAES_ASM -DVPAES_ASM -DBSAES_ASM -DWHIRLPOOL_ASM -DGHASH_ASM -DECP_NISTZ256_ASM
The 'numbers' are in 1000s of bytes per second processed.
type             16 bytes     64 bytes    256 bytes   1024 bytes   8192 bytes
aes-128-cbc     248291.42k   336082.04k   420643.66k   449427.26k   456331.58k

Yours is definitely faster.


Cheers,
Franco

[minime]

Hmmm...interesting. Thanks for the explanation! I just thought it should be much faster