Does anyone know if Fortinet has some master list of the pros and cons of the various encryption and auth ciphers/hashes, and what platforms they may or may not be a good idea on? For example, I know that the 100D and below cannot offload SHA256 hashing, so if you set up a tunnel using that in the phase2, your performance is horrid due to it punting to the slow celeron CPU. However, a 100E and even little 60E are perfectly happy with that setup.
Now in later FortiOS I see AES128/256 GCM has become available, along with CHACHA20POLY1305 as an encryption+auth option for phase 2. I believe in the case of at least the two GCM options, these would ideally involve an AES-NI capable chip to function at optimal speed, but I can find no information on what hardware devices can do that, and what the consequences are if you were to enable those without that offload. CHACHA I believe relies on normal CPU cycles, but is known to be very efficient, so is there also a scenario where it would be better, and what impact on security does it have compared to the other options available? How do they compare to AES256/SHA256 on a platform that offloads those?
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