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From: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
To: Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com>
Cc: dsterba@suse.cz, Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>,
	David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>,
	Linux BTRFS Mailinglist <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/17] Add support for SHA-256 checksums
Date: Thu, 30 May 2019 14:21:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190530122110.GE15290@twin.jikos.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2947276.sp5yYTaRCK@archlinux>

On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 08:36:23PM +0200, Diego Calleja wrote:
> El miércoles, 15 de mayo de 2019 19:27:21 (CEST) David Sterba escribió:
> > Once the code is ready for more checksum algos, we'll pick candidates
> > and my idea is to select 1 fast (not necessarily strong, but better
> > than crc32c) and 1 strong (but slow, and sha256 is the candidate at the
> > moment)
> 
> Modern CPUs have SHA256 instructions, it is actually that slow? (not sure how 
> fast these instructions are)
> 
> If btrfs needs an algorithm with good performance/security ratio, I would 
> suggest considering BLAKE2 [1]. It is based in the BLAKE algorithm that made 
> to the final round in the SHA3 competition, it is considered pretty secure 
> (above SHA2 at least), and it was designed to take advantage of modern CPU 
> features and be as fast as possible - it even beats SHA1 in that regard. It is 
> not currently in the kernel but Wireguard uses it and will add an 
> implementation when it's merged (but Wireguard doesn't use the crypto layer 
> for some reason...)

BLAKE2 looks as a good candidate. I have a glue code to export it as the
crypto module so we'll be able to test it at least. I'm not sure about
SHA3 due to the performance reasons, it comes out slower than SHA256 and
that one is already considered slow.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2019-05-30 12:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-10 11:15 [PATCH 00/17] Add support for SHA-256 checksums Johannes Thumshirn
2019-05-10 11:15 ` [PATCH 01/17] btrfs: use btrfs_csum_data() instead of directly calling crc32c Johannes Thumshirn
2019-05-10 16:16   ` Nikolay Borisov
2019-05-10 11:15 ` [PATCH 02/17] btrfs: resurrect btrfs_crc32c() Johannes Thumshirn
2019-05-10 16:16   ` Nikolay Borisov
2019-05-10 11:15 ` [PATCH 03/17] btrfs: use btrfs_crc32c() instead of btrfs_extref_hash() Johannes Thumshirn
2019-05-10 13:03   ` Nikolay Borisov
2019-05-10 11:15 ` [PATCH 04/17] btrfs: use btrfs_crc32c() instead of btrfs_name_hash() Johannes Thumshirn
2019-05-10 12:56   ` Chris Mason
2019-05-13  7:04     ` Johannes Thumshirn
2019-05-10 11:15 ` [PATCH 05/17] btrfs: don't assume ordered sums to be 4 bytes Johannes Thumshirn
2019-05-10 13:25   ` Nikolay Borisov
2019-05-10 13:27     ` Nikolay Borisov
2019-05-13  7:06       ` Johannes Thumshirn
2019-05-10 11:15 ` [PATCH 06/17] btrfs: dont assume compressed_bio " Johannes Thumshirn
2019-05-10 11:15 ` [PATCH 07/17] btrfs: use btrfs_crc32c{,_final}() in for free space cache Johannes Thumshirn
2019-05-10 13:27   ` Nikolay Borisov
2019-05-10 11:15 ` [PATCH 08/17] btrfs: format checksums according to type for printing Johannes Thumshirn
2019-05-10 13:28   ` Nikolay Borisov
2019-05-10 11:15 ` [PATCH 09/17] btrfs: add common checksum type validation Johannes Thumshirn
2019-05-10 13:37   ` Nikolay Borisov
2019-05-10 11:15 ` [PATCH 10/17] btrfs: check for supported superblock checksum type before checksum validation Johannes Thumshirn
2019-05-10 13:37   ` Nikolay Borisov
2019-05-10 11:15 ` [PATCH 11/17] btrfs: Simplify btrfs_check_super_csum() and get rid of size assumptions Johannes Thumshirn
2019-05-10 13:41   ` Nikolay Borisov
2019-05-10 11:15 ` [PATCH 12/17] btrfs: add boilerplate code for directly including the crypto framework Johannes Thumshirn
2019-05-10 16:28   ` Nikolay Borisov
2019-05-10 11:15 ` [PATCH 13/17] btrfs: pass in an fs_info to btrfs_csum_{data,final}() Johannes Thumshirn
2019-05-10 11:15 ` [PATCH 14/17] btrfs: directly call into crypto framework for checsumming Johannes Thumshirn
2019-05-10 13:45   ` Chris Mason
2019-05-10 13:54     ` Chris Mason
2019-05-13  7:17       ` Johannes Thumshirn
2019-05-13 13:55         ` Chris Mason
2019-05-14 12:46     ` Johannes Thumshirn
2019-05-13 13:00   ` David Sterba
2019-05-13 13:01     ` Johannes Thumshirn
2019-05-13 14:30       ` David Sterba
2019-05-10 11:15 ` [PATCH 15/17] btrfs: remove assumption about csum type form btrfs_csum_{data,final}() Johannes Thumshirn
2019-05-13 12:56   ` David Sterba
2019-05-10 11:15 ` [PATCH 16/17] btrfs: remove assumption about csum type form btrfs_print_data_csum_error() Johannes Thumshirn
2019-05-10 11:15 ` [PATCH 17/17] btrfs: add sha256 as another checksum algorithm Johannes Thumshirn
2019-05-10 12:30   ` Nikolay Borisov
2019-05-13  7:11     ` Johannes Thumshirn
2019-05-13 12:54       ` David Sterba
2019-05-13 12:55         ` Johannes Thumshirn
2019-05-15  1:45         ` Jeff Mahoney
2019-05-13 12:55     ` David Sterba
2019-05-13 12:58       ` Johannes Thumshirn
2019-05-15 17:27 ` [PATCH 00/17] Add support for SHA-256 checksums David Sterba
2019-05-16  6:30   ` Paul Jones
2019-05-16  8:16     ` Nikolay Borisov
2019-05-16  8:20       ` Johannes Thumshirn
2019-05-17 18:36   ` Diego Calleja
2019-05-17 19:07     ` Johannes Thumshirn
2019-05-18  0:38       ` Adam Borowski
2019-05-20  7:47         ` Johannes Thumshirn
2019-05-20 11:34           ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2019-05-20 11:57             ` Johannes Thumshirn
2019-05-20 11:42     ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2019-05-30 12:21     ` David Sterba [this message]

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