Review Request of JDK 9 Enhancement Proposal: AEAD/CCM Cipher Mode

[Anthony Scarpino]

On 03/24/2014 04:59 PM, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> Am Mon, 24 Mar 2014 16:13:17 -0700
> schrieb "Valerie (Yu-Ching) Peng" <valerie.peng at oracle.com>:
>
>>
>> Here is the enhancement proposal for adding CCM cipher mode support
>> to JDK. For details, please refer to the following JEP:
>>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~valeriep/8008342/jepCCM.txt
>>
>> Comments or feedback welcome.
>
> Sounds great, there is no mentioning of specific machine instructions
> to speed up CCM (like PCLMULQDQ for GCM) or no relationship to the AES
> intrinsic. It would really be a shame if (both) new modes cannot
> benefit from typical hardware speedups. (especially when it is out of
> scope for PKCS#11).
>

Hardware acceleration is not being addressed as part of the CCM 
implementation.  PCLMULQDQ is a whole different thing with other challenges.

Tony