1. Overview
This article provides an overview of general improvements and resolved issues in the Fortanix Data Security Manager (DSM) Accelerator 4.20 release.
2. New Features/Improvements
DSM Accelerator Webservice:
The DSM Accelerator Webservice inbound logs now lists the IP address of the calling application node (JIRA: PROD-7229).
3. Bug Fixes
DSM Accelerator Webservice:
The DSM Accelerator Webservice environment variable is now updated to
FORTANIX_PROXYinstead ofFORTANIX-PROXY(JIRA: PROD-7410).
4. Fortanix Data Security Manager-Accelerator Performance Statistics
4.1 Runtime Environment
NOTE
The following table lists the standard recommended runtime environment. You can choose a higher configuration for better performance.
DSM Accelerator was run in the runtime environment listed below for performance testing.
Item | Specification |
|---|---|
Number of Cores | 4 |
CPU | Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2673 v4 @ 2.30GHz |
RAM | 16 GiB |
Docker Runtime Configuration |
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4.2 DSM Accelerator Webservice
NOTE
The performance numbers below are captured with a single node; if you need higher performance or throughput, then we recommend adding multiple nodes.
Key Types and Operations | Throughput (Operations/second on a 1-node cluster) |
|---|---|
AES 256: CBC Encryption/Decryption | 16,486/16,772 |
AES 256: GCM Encryption/Decryption | 16,391/16,558 |
AES 256: FPE Encryption/Decryption | 4,996/4,982 |
4.3 Additional Modes
Key Types and Operations | Throughput (Operations/second on a 1-node cluster) |
|---|---|
AES 256: CBCNOPAD Encryption/Decryption | 16,922/16,936 |
AES 256: CFB Encryption/Decryption | 16,896/16,965 |
AES 256: CTR Encryption/Decryption | 16,883/16,777 |
AES 256: OFB Encryption/Decryption | 16,932/16,915 |
AES 256: CCM Encryption/Decryption | 16,370/16,531 |