Commits on Sep 4, 2024

1. Chacha20-Poly1305 encryption …

   This commit implements the Chacha20-Poly1305 AEAD from RFC 8439 as a new
   algorithm option for encrypted datasets.
   
   AES (and particularly the default AES-GCM mode used in OpenZFS) is known
   to be very slow on systems without hardware assistance. There are many
   such machines out there could make good use of OpenZFS, especially
   low-cost machines and small boards that would otherwise make very nice
   storage machines. The Raspberry Pi series of machines are a good
   example.
   
   The best option for these systems is an encryption option that performs
   well in software. Chacha20-Poly1305 is the current "standard" option for
   this in many contexts, and is a good choice for OpenZFS.
   
   The core Chacha20 and Poly1305 implementations are taken from Loup
   Valliant's Monocypher. These were chosen because they are compact, easy
   to read, easy to use and the author has written extensively about its
   development, all of which give me confidence that there are unlikely to
   be any surprises.
   
   I've added a KCF-style module to the ICP to implement the AEAD. This
   implements just enough for OpenZFS, and is not suitable as a
   general-purpose KCF for Illumos (though it could be the starting point
   for one).
   
   For FreeBSD, which does not use the ICP, I've instead hooked it up to
   FreeBSD's builtin crypto stack.
   
   The rest is adding an enabling property value and a feature flag and and
   hooking it up to all the right touch points, and documentation updates.
   
   The existing tests that cycle through the possible encryption options
   have been extended to add one more.
   
   I've added a test to ensure that raw receives of chacha20-poly1305
   datasets do the right thing based on the state of the feature flag on
   the receiving side.
   
   There's also a test unit that runs the test vectors in RFC 8439 against
   Chacha20, Poly1305 and the AEAD in the ICP that combines them. This is
   most useful as a sanity check during future work to add alternate
   (accelerated) implementations.
   
   Finally, manual interop testing has been done to confirm that pools and
   streams can be moved between Linux and FreeBSD correctly.
   
   Light and uncontrolled performance testing on a Raspberry Pi 4B
   (Broadcom BCM2711, no hardware AES) writing to a chacha20-poly1305
   dataset was ~2.4x faster than aes-256-gcm on the same hardware. On a
   Fitlet2 (Celeron J3455, AES-NI but no AVX (openzfs#10846)) it was ~1.3x faster.
   
   Sponsored-by: https://despairlabs.com/sponsor/
   Signed-off-by: Rob Norris <robn@despairlabs.com>

   

   robn committed Sep 4, 2024
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