Eric Biggers Linux & Open-Source News |
| Revised AVX-512 xor_gen() Implementation For Linux RAID Yielding More Performance Gains | Linux Storage | 2026-06-14 |
| AVX-512 Optimization For Linux RAID Showing Up To 41% Improvement On AMD Ryzen 9 9950X | Linux Storage | 2026-06-12 |
| Linux 7.2 Proceeding To Deprecate AF_ALG Due To "Massive Attack Surface", Drops Offloading | Linux Networking | 2026-06-01 |
| ML-KEM + X-Wing Patches Posted For Linux To Help With Post-Quantum Security | Linux Security | 2026-05-26 |
| Linux AF_ALG Crypto Code Removing Zero-Copy Support Out Of Security Concerns | Linux Security | 2026-05-18 |
| DM-INLINECRYPT Expected For Linux 7.2 To Leverage Inline Encryption | Linux Storage | 2026-05-08 |
| Linux 7.1 Crypto Code Rework Enables More Optimizations By Default | Linux Kernel | 2026-04-17 |
| Linux Kernel AES Library Seeing Improvements For Better Performance & More | Linux Kernel | 2026-01-05 |
| DM Changes Merged For Linux 6.19 - Much Better Performance For "Verity" Integrity | Linux Storage | 2025-12-11 |
| AES-GCM Optimizations Land In Linux 6.19 - Benefiting AMD Zen 3, AVX-512 CPUs Too | Linux Kernel | 2025-12-03 |
| POLYVAL Work Bringing More Performance Gains To Linux Crypto Subsystem | Linux Kernel | 2025-11-10 |
| DM-VERITY Change For Linux 6.19: "On Some CPUs This Nearly Doubles Hashing Performance" | Linux Kernel | 2025-10-28 |
| AES-GCM Crypto Performance Up To ~74% Faster For AMD Zen 3 With Linux 6.19 | Linux Kernel | 2025-10-17 |
| Cryptography Performance Improvements Coming For Linux 6.18 | Linux Kernel | 2025-09-28 |
| Linux Patches To Unconditionally Enable Architecture-Optimized BLAKE2s Support | Linux Kernel | 2025-08-28 |
| Huge Speedups For CRC32C With Modern AVX-512 CPUs Merged To Linux 6.17 | Linux Kernel | 2025-07-29 |
| Intel QAT Accelerators Being Demoted On Linux By FSCRYPT: Bug Prone & Slow | Intel | 2025-07-28 |
| Linux Kernel Patches Speed-Up CRC32 Performance For CPUs With "Good" AVX-512 | Linux Kernel | 2025-07-20 |
| Linux 6.16 Crypto Brings Faster AES-XTS On AVX-512 CPUs, Intel QAT Gen6 Support | Linux Kernel | 2025-05-29 |
| Linux 6.16 Upstreams Support For Hardware-Wrapped Encryption Keys | Linux Storage | 2025-05-27 |
| The Linux Kernel's SHA-256 Code Being Improved Upon For Easier & Performant Use | Linux Kernel | 2025-04-27 |
| Slightly Faster AES-XTS Performance For AVX-512 CPUs Expected With Linux 6.16 | Linux Kernel | 2025-04-18 |
| Linux 6.15 Crypto Subsystem Delivers Faster AES-CTR For AMD Zen 5 & Other x86_64 CPUs | Linux Kernel | 2025-04-05 |
| Linux 6.15 CRC Code Should See Big Speed-Ups For Intel/AMD AVX-512 CPUs | Linux Kernel | 2025-03-24 |
| New Patches Would Make All Kernel Encryption/Decryption Faster On x86/x86_64 Hardware | Linux Kernel | 2025-02-20 |
| New Linux Patches Yield Up To 3.3x Faster AES-CTR Performance On AMD Zen 5 CPUs | AMD | 2025-02-05 |
| Faster AES-GCM & AES-XTS Crypto Performance For AMD CPUs With Linux 6.14 | Linux Kernel | 2025-01-23 |
| Faster AES-GCM & AES-XTS Crypto For AMD CPUs With Linux 6.14 | AMD | 2024-12-23 |
| More Kernel Bitrot: Old & Busted UltraSPARC T2 "Niagara 2" SPU Driver Slated For Removal | Linux Kernel | 2024-12-07 |
| Faster CRC32C & AEGIS-128 Crypto Performance On Linux 6.13 With Intel/AMD CPUs | Linux Kernel | 2024-11-20 |
| DM-INLINECRYPT Being Worked On To Leverage Inline Block Device Encryption | Linux Storage | 2024-10-27 |
| Significant CRC32C Throughput Optimization On The Way To The Linux Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2024-10-23 |
| AVX-512/AVX10 & VAES Optimized AES-GCM Implementation Lands In Linux 6.11 | Linux Kernel | 2024-07-20 |
| Linux 6.11 Likely To Land DM-Verity Multi-Buffer Hashing For Big Speed Boost | Linux Storage | 2024-07-05 |
| Big Speed Boost For AES-GCM Performance On Intel & AMD CPUs Queued Ahead Of Linux 6.11 | Linux Kernel | 2024-06-07 |
| Up To 162% Faster AES-GCM Encryption/Decryption For Intel & AMD CPUs On Linux | Linux Kernel | 2024-06-03 |
| Linux 6.10 Makes AES-XTS Disk/File Encryption Much Faster For Modern Intel/AMD CPUs | Linux Kernel | 2024-05-13 |
| FSVERITY/DM-Verity Can Yield Much Better Performance With Multi-Buffer Hashing | Linux Storage | 2024-05-02 |
| Linux 6.9-rc5 Picking Up Fixes For Intel FRED, BHI & GFNI/VAES Checks | Linux Kernel | 2024-04-21 |
| Linux 6.10 AES-XTS For Disk/File Encryption As Much As ~155% Faster For AMD Zen 4 CPUs | Linux Kernel | 2024-04-08 |
| FSCRYPT In Linux 6.7 More Adaptable For Inline Encryption Hardware | Linux Kernel | 2023-10-30 |
| XFS Support For FS-VERITY Moves Closer To Mainline | Linux Storage | 2023-06-26 |
| Linux 6.2 Adding FSCRYPT Support For China's Questionable SM4 Cipher | Linux Storage | 2022-12-12 |
| Linux 6.1 Adding Support To statx() For Reporting Direct I/O Alignment Details | Linux Kernel | 2022-10-03 |
| Linux FAT File Creation/Birth Time Reporting, Proposal For Statx I/O Alignment Info | Linux Storage | 2022-05-19 |
| FSCRYPT Adding Direct I/O Support For Encrypted Files In Linux 5.18 | Linux Storage | 2022-03-21 |
| AES-NI XTS To See 2~3x Performance Recovery After Regressing Hard From Retpolines | Linux Security | 2020-12-29 |
| The New NTFS Linux Driver Updated With Better Compression Handling | Linux Storage | 2020-12-06 |
| FSCRYPT Inline Encryption Still Being Prepared For The Linux Kernel | Linux Storage | 2020-05-04 |
| FSCRYPT Inline Encryption Readied Ahead Of Linux 5.5 Kernel For EXT4 + F2FS | Linux Storage | 2019-10-27 |
| Improved Fscrypt Sent In For Linux 5.4 To Offer Better Native File Encryption Handling | Linux Storage | 2019-09-18 |
| Google's FS-VERITY File Authentication Called For Inclusion In Linux 5.4 Kernel | Google | 2019-09-16 |
| Improved Fscrypt File Encryption Handling Aims For Linux 5.4 | Linux Storage | 2019-08-11 |
| Google Decides Not To Use Speck For Disk Encryption, Instead Developing HPolyC | Linux Kernel | 2018-08-06 |
| GRUB Now Supports EXT4 File-Systems With Encryption | GNU | 2017-06-29 |
