poly_hash is part of the HEH (Hash-Encrypt-Hash) encryption mode,
proposed in Internet Draft
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-cope-heh-01. poly_hash is very
similar to GHASH; besides the swapping of the last two coefficients
which we opted to handle in the HEH template, poly_hash just uses a
different finite field representation. As with GHASH, poly_hash becomes
much faster and more secure against timing attacks when implemented
using carryless multiplication instructions instead of tables. This
patch adds an ARMv8-CE optimized version of poly_hash, based roughly on
the existing ARMv8-CE optimized version of GHASH.
Benchmark results are shown below, but note that the resistance to
timing attacks may be even more important than the performance gain.
poly_hash only:
poly_hash-generic:
1,000,000 setkey() takes 1185 ms
hashing is 328 MB/s
poly_hash-ce:
1,000,000 setkey() takes 8 ms
hashing is 1756 MB/s
heh(aes) with 4096-byte inputs (this is the ideal case, as the
improvement is less significant with smaller inputs):
encryption with "heh_base(cmac(aes-ce),poly_hash-generic,ecb-aes-ce)": 118 MB/s
decryption with "heh_base(cmac(aes-ce),poly_hash-generic,ecb-aes-ce)": 120 MB/s
encryption with "heh_base(cmac(aes-ce),poly_hash-ce,ecb-aes-ce)": 291 MB/s
decryption with "heh_base(cmac(aes-ce),poly_hash-ce,ecb-aes-ce)": 293 MB/s
Bug: 32508661
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Change-Id: I621ec0e1115df7e6f5cbd7e864a4a9d8d2e94cf2
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