[jira] [Created] (IMPALA-6128) Encryption(AES-CFB + SHA256) can be a performance bottleneck while IO is getting faster

["Xianda Ke (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Xianda Ke created IMPALA-6128:
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             Summary: Encryption(AES-CFB + SHA256) can be a performance bottleneck while IO is getting faster
                 Key: IMPALA-6128
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IMPALA-6128
             Project: IMPALA
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: Backend, Perf Investigation, Security
            Reporter: Xianda Ke


Currently, Impala's encryption(AES-CFB + SHA256) can be a bottleneck while IO is getting faster.
The throughput of AES-CFB + SHA256 is about ~200~300MB/s, while nowadays' SSD throughput can be up to GB/s. for instance, the read throughput is ~2600MB/s in Intel's DC P3600, and write throughput is 1700MB/s. And the coming Intel's Optance is getting more faster.  
If the customers who care about security and turn on the flag.  Shuffle temp file can be a performance bottleneck.

h2. Brief introduction to AES-CTR & AES-GCM
Confidentiality Modes: CFB & CTR
* Both are Stream Ciphers
* provable-security when use different nonce/IV for every message

But, CTR has its advantages:
* Hardware efficiency on an x86
* Random-access
* encryption/description
The CTR mode can be parallelized in instruction level(ILP), it is about 4~6 times faster than CFB on x86 platform. its implementation is well-optimized in OpenSSL or JVM on x86 platform.

"It is hard to think of any modern, bulk-privacy application scenario where any of the “original
four” blockcipher modes—ECB, CBC, CFB, or OFB—make more sense than CTR."
--Phillip Rogaway

Confidentiality + Integrity
AES-GCM is a relatively new standard (2008).  It is a combination of CTR and GMAC. GCM has both encryption and message integrity. AES-GCM was fully supported since OpenSSL 1.0.1d. Intel has added a carry-less-multiplication instruction (PCLMULQDQ) since Westmere.

*  GCM is already widely used.
*  provable-security, it is fragile only if you re-use an IV like CTR/CFB.

GCM is a very fast but arguably complex combination of CTR mode and GHASH. Luckily, we don't have to implement it. The well-optimized implementation(Prof. Shay Gueron's algorithm) with hardware acceleration(AES & PCLMULQDQ) has been adopted in OpenSSL, Linux, go language...

References:
[AES-GCM for Efficient Authenticated Encryption –
Ending the Reign of HMAC-SHA-1? ](https://crypto.stanford.edu/RealWorldCrypto/slides/gueron.pdf)
[Evaluation of Some Blockcipher Modes of Operation](http://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/papers/modes.pdf)


h2. mirco-benchmark
Here is the mirco-benchmark on my desktop(Memory 16G, CPU: i5-4590 CPU @ 3.30GHz):
{code}
OpenSSL 1.0.2g,
OpenSSL CTR Encryption (Total=1024MB, key=256bits, Chunk= 16KB)	throughput= 3202.58MB/s.
OpenSSL CTR Encryption (Total=1024MB, key=256bits, Chunk=  1MB)	throughput= 3241.76MB/s.
OpenSSL CTR Decryption (Total=1024MB, key=256bits, Chunk= 16KB)	throughput= 3199.91MB/s.
OpenSSL CTR Decryption (Total=1024MB, key=256bits, Chunk=  1MB)	throughput= 3231.22MB/s.

OpenSSL CFB Encryption (Total=1024MB, key=256bits, Chunk= 16KB)	throughput= 427.07MB/s.
OpenSSL CFB Encryption (Total=1024MB, key=256bits, Chunk=  1MB)	throughput= 423.92MB/s.
OpenSSL CFB Decryption (Total=1024MB, key=256bits, Chunk= 16KB)	throughput= 425.87MB/s.
OpenSSL CFB Decryption (Total=1024MB, key=256bits, Chunk=  1MB)	throughput= 423.44MB/s.

OpenSSL SHA256 Encryption (Total=64MB, key=256bits, Chunk= 64KB)	throughput= 449.48MB/s.
OpenSSL SHA256 Encryption (Total=1024MB, key=256bits, Chunk=  1MB)	throughput= 446.63MB/s.

OpenSSL GCM Encryption (Total=1024MB, key=256bits, Chunk= 16KB)	throughput= 2340.80MB/s.
OpenSSL GCM Encryption (Total=1024MB, key=256bits, Chunk=  1MB)	throughput= 2366.55MB/s.

OpenSSL CFB+SHA256 Encryption (Total=1024MB, key=256bits, Chunk= 16KB)	throughput= 218.77MB/s.
OpenSSL CFB+SHA256 Encryption (Total=1024MB, key=256bits, Chunk=  1MB)	throughput= 220.53MB/s.
OpenSSL CFB+SHA256 Decryption (Total=1024MB, key=256bits, Chunk= 16KB)	throughput= 219.10MB/s.
OpenSSL CFB+SHA256 Decryption (Total=1024MB, key=256bits, Chunk=  1MB)	throughput= 219.92MB/s.
{code}
We can see that GCM is *~10 times* faster than CFB+SHA256

h2. Solutions
Option A: if replace CFB+SHA256 with AES-GCM. Encryption/Decryption can be ~10x faster.
Option B: Just replace CFB with CTR, it is very simple, and ~70% performance gain.

folks, any comments? I will upload the patches soon.





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