[tor-bugs] #1794 [Tor - Relay]: Finish support for AES_CTR acceleration on Solaris

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#1794: Finish support for AES_CTR acceleration on Solaris
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 Reporter:  nickm        |       Owner:     
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:     
Component:  Tor - Relay  |     Version:     
 Keywords:               |      Parent:     
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 Some Solaris hw/sw combinations have built-in support for AES_CTR
 acceleration.  Wyllys Ingersoll started writing a patch to add support for
 this to our relay crypto, which can speed up relay performance a lot.

 The latest version of this code is in branch "solaris-aes" in my public
 repository.  It needs more work before it's ready to merge.  The
 outstanding issues are:

    * We don't have an autoconf test to see if we're building on a host
 with PKCS11 support.  We should add one, and have it set
 USE_PKCS11_FRAMEWORK when we are.  The usual autoconf way would be to test
 for the presence of some header or function.
   *  Last time I reviewed this patch, it looked like it didn't implement
 our aes_set_iv function.  If that's so, the patch will break hidden
 services (and probably the unit tests too).  So, aes_set_iv needs to get
 implemented.

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