From owner-freebsd-security Wed Nov 7 16:57:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from silby.com (cb34181-a.mdsn1.wi.home.com [24.14.173.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 469D937B405 for ; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 16:57:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 39914 invoked by uid 1000); 8 Nov 2001 00:57:31 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 8 Nov 2001 00:57:31 -0000 Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 18:57:31 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Silbersack To: Nick Slager Cc: Darren Reed , Subject: Re: KAME IPsec on low-end hardware In-Reply-To: <20011108105421.A3785@BlueSkyFrog.COM> Message-ID: <20011107185550.K39446-100000@achilles.silby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Nick Slager wrote: > > Hmmm, odd. I've just changed the encryption/hash to DES/MD5. > > No change in response times. > > Hmmm, seems that I failed to do this correctly last night :-\ > > Changing the encryption/hash to DES/MD5 *does* indeed make a difference > to response times; I'm consistently seeing rtt times of 13-14ms now. > > Compare this to the "default" triple-DES/SHA-1 scheme, which > consistently comes in at 33-34ms. Well, if you have a lot of free time, you could try wedging the openssl assembly cores into the kernel; they perform about 2x faster than their C equivalents, at least on p5 and better processors. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message