Comment # 13 on bug 907692 from grant k

(In reply to Takashi Iwai from comment #12)
> Check /etc/modules-load.d/* files.  I guess some files contain these modules.
> If yes, some package might own this file, or has created this file.  In that
> case, it's just a packaging issue.

nope.  checking on all three machies/cases,

 egrep -rlni "aes|sha|sse" /etc/modules-load.d/
  (empty)