Samba 4.12 Bringing Much Faster Encryption Performance With GnuTLS

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Samba 4.12 Bringing Much Faster Encryption Performance With GnuTLS

Samba 4.11 was just released a few weeks back with big scalability improvements, but looking ahead to Samba 4.12 will be some big performance improvements for those leveraging encryption...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=SMB3-Faster-Encryption-Samba

[You-]

I thought the 5 orders of magnitude mentioned in the article would have been some sort of typo - 5x faster. But link shows it is indeed 50x faster in that test.

I hope they soon sort out their kerberos stuff - having two competing implementations with different feature sets is a problem, especially in enterprise distros.

[treba]

As always when projects get their crypto into shape, this is great news! Thanks for that and hopefully the remaining patches get merged in time.

[ermo]

Will definitely be monitoring how this develops.

[andrebrait]

I thought the 5 orders of magnitude mentioned in the article would have been some sort of typo - 5x faster. But link shows it is indeed 50x faster in that test.

I hope they soon sort out their kerberos stuff - having two competing implementations with different feature sets is a problem, especially in enterprise distros.

50 times faster is still not 5 orders of magnitude. That would be ~10^5 times faster.

[S.Pam]

Is this also going to be used on samba servers?

[ermo]

Is this also going to be used on samba servers?

Insofar that you turn on smb encryption on you samba server, yes. Encryption is an SMB 3.0+ feature.

For reference:

https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/cur...mb.conf.5.html , search for "smb encrypt".