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Date:      Wed, 28 Aug 2013 15:18:43 +1000
From:      "Dewayne Geraghty" <dewayne.geraghty@heuristicsystems.com.au>
To:        "'John-Mark Gurney'" <jmg@funkthat.com>, "'Ollivier Robert'" <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: security/openssl speed issues
Message-ID:  <D02D3E9B028745EFB7EB67D1D7B0A723@white>
In-Reply-To: <20130828022728.GR29777@funkthat.com>
References:  <20130827153205.GA48196@roberto02-aw.eurocontrol.fr> <20130828022728.GR29777@funkthat.com>

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John,Ollivier,

I've found the openssl speed tests to be an unreliable measure of comparison.  I think you might be better served by comparing the
performance of encrypting/decrypting content, such as
 
dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=100 | openssl aes-128-cbc -e -pass pass:secretpwd | \
 openssl aes-128-cbc -d -pass pass:secretpwd >> /dev/null

And for a baseline use
dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=100 >> /dev/null 

Kind regards, Dewayne




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