[strongSwan] AES-GCM for ESP

Joshua Liebow-Feeser joshlf13 at gmail.com
Wed Jul 8 00:51:02 CEST 2015


Ah, thanks! Unfortunately, it doesn't work:
$ sudo ./crconf add driver 'pcrypt(rfc4106(gcm(aes-aesni)))' type 3
RTNETLINK answers: No such file or directory

Does that mean that the algorithm isn't supported or something?

On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Noel Kuntze <noel at familie-kuntze.de> wrote:

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> Hello Joshua,
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> Look in the wiki article about pcrypt[1].
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> [1] https://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/Pcrypt
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> Mit freundlichen Grüßen/Kind Regards,
> Noel Kuntze
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> Am 08.07.2015 um 00:37 schrieb Joshua Liebow-Feeser:
> > OK, I'll try that. What would be the invocation to load the drivers
> equivalent to the *modprobe* command that I used?
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Noel Kuntze <noel at familie-kuntze.de
> <mailto:noel at familie-kuntze.de>> wrote:
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> > Hello Joshua,
> >
> > Well, try to use crconf instead.
> > Load the crypto_user module before using crconf.
> > Look at the PKGBUILD[1] for the crconf package for Arch Linux
> > for hints towards building it
> >
> > [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cr/crconf/PKGBUILD
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> > Mit freundlichen Grüßen/Kind Regards,
> > Noel Kuntze
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> > Am 07.07.2015 um 23:17 schrieb Joshua Liebow-Feeser:
> > > Hi,
> >
> > > I'm trying to set up strongSwan to use AES-GCM as the encryption
> algorithm for ESP. I'd like this to be parallelized, so I'm trying to use
> pcrypt, but whenever I try to instantiate the proper kernel support, I get
> errors:
> >
> > > $ sudo modprobe tcrypt alg="pcrypt(rfc4106(gcm(aes-aesni)))" type=3
> > > FATAL: Error inserting tcrypt
> (/lib/modules/3.13.0-55-generic/kernel/crypto/tcrypt.ko): Unknown symbol in
> module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
> > > $ dmesg | tail -n 1
> > > [...] tcrypt: one or more tests failed!
> >
> > > Any idea what's going on here or how I could fix it? Thanks!
> > > Cheers,
> > > Josh
> >
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