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DSM Accelerator [4.37] - Mar 28, 2025

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1. Overview

This document provides an overview of the new features and resolved issues in the Fortanix Data Security Manager (DSM) Accelerator 4.37 release.

2. New Features and Bug Fixes

  • DSM Accelerator Webservice:

    • Added support for encryption and decryption using the RSA keys in Fortanix DSM Accelerator Webservice (JIRA: PM-395).
      For more details, refer to DSM Accelerator Webservice Developer Guide.

    • Resolved a performance issue in Fortanix DSM Accelerator Webservice for AWS Nitro, where one node in the cluster issued export requests more frequently even when the cache Time-To-Live (TTL) was configured longer (JIRA: PROD-10043).

    • Fixed an issue in Fortanix DSM Accelerator Webservice for AWS Nitro where, in cluster mode, it failed to export security objects if the locally cached bearer token had expired (JIRA: PROD-10051).

  • DSM Accelerator JCE Provider:

3. Fortanix Data Security Manager Accelerator Performance Statistics

3.1 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

2 GiB

VM Type 

Standard D4ds v4 Azure VM

Docker Runtime Configuration

docker run -d --network host --memory=1g --memory-swap=2g --log-driver json-file --log-opt max-size=100m


NOTE

The performance numbers below were captured with a single node. For higher performance or throughput, Fortanix recommends adding multiple nodes.

3.2 DSM Accelerator Webservice

Key Types and Operations

Throughput (Operations/second on a 1-node cluster re-using a single TLS session)

AES 256: CBC Encryption/Decryption

21,166/20,828

AES 256: GCM Encryption/Decryption

22,445/22,134

AES 256: FPE Encryption/Decryption

9,617/9,578


3.3 Additional Modes

Key Types and Operations

Throughput (Operations/second on a 1-node cluster re-using a single TLS session)

AES 256: CBCNOPAD Encryption and Decryption

22,068/21,823

AES 256: CFB Encryption/Decryption

22,472/21,986

AES 256: CTR Encryption/Decryption

22,491/22,017

AES 256: OFB Encryption/Decryption

22,636/22,240

AES 256: CCM Encryption/Decryption

22,326/22,071

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