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@@ -73,28 +73,41 @@ Storage Overhead Performance ----------- -gocryptfs uses openssl through -[spacemonkeygo/openssl](https://github.com/spacemonkeygo/openssl) -for a 3x speedup compared to Go's builtin AES-GCM implementation (see -[go-vs-openssl.md](openssl_benchmark/go-vs-openssl.md) for details). +Since version 0.7.2, gocryptfs is as fast as EncFS in the default mode, +and significantly faster than EncFS' "paranoia" mode that provides +a security level comparable to gocryptfs. -Run `./benchmark.bash` to run the benchmarks. +gocryptfs uses OpenSSL through a thin wrapper called `stupidgcm`. +This provides a 4x speedup compared to Go's builtin AES-GCM +implementation - see [openssl-gcm.md](Documentation/openssl-gcm.md) +for details. The use of openssl can disabled on the command-line. -The output should look like this: +Run `./benchmark.bash` to run gocryptfs' canonical set of +benchmarks that include streaming write, extracting a linux kernel +tarball, recursively listing and finally deleting it. The output will +look like this: ``` $ ./benchmark.bash -linux-3.0.tar.gz 100%[===========================>] 92,20M 2,96MB/s in 35s -2016-01-23 20:08:11 URL:https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/linux-3.0.tar.gz [...] -WRITE: 131072000 bytes (131 MB) copied, 1,36225 s, 96,2 MB/s -UNTAR: 23.16 -LS: 1.71 -RM: 4.36 +linux-3.0.tar.gz 100%[==========================>] 92,20M 2,96MB/s in 35s +2016-05-04 19:29:20 URL:https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/linux-3.0.tar.gz +WRITE: 131072000 bytes (131 MB) copied, 1,43137 s, 91,6 MB/s +UNTAR: 23.25 +LS: 1.75 +RM: 4.42 ``` Changelog --------- +v0.10-rc1 +* **Drop dependency to `spacemonkeygo/openssl`** + * gocrypts now has its own thin wrapper to OpenSSL's GCM implemenation + called `stupidgcm`. + * This should fix the [compile issues](https://github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs/issues/21) + people are seeing with `spacemonkeygo/openssl` and it also gets us + a 20% performance boost for streaming writes. + v0.9 * **Long file name support** * gocryptfs now supports file names up to 255 characters. |