RE: [Algorithms] Message signature in token ring

[Shawn H. <sha...@cl...>]

> Negotiate a 56-bit DES key, and either encrypt your payload (0 space
> overhead, higher CPU overhead), or encrypt a hash at the end (small
> space overhead, small CPU overhead).

Even a slow CPU is so many orders of magnitude faster than network
bandwidth, encrypting all packet contents is an insignificant cost.
I really wouldn't worry about that.


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Shawn Hargreaves
Climax Brighton


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