Re: [Openvpn-users] cipher speed vs. security

[Jon B. <jon...@la...>]

Den 16. jun 2004, kl. 20:55, skrev James Yonan:

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> In my own benchmarking, I've seen that 80% or more of OpenVPN's CPU
> utilization is taken up by crypto operations (i.e. encrypt, decrypt, 
> and HMAC).
>
> This is easily tested as such (on *nix) with 2 machines on the same 
> physical
> network which is firewalled from the internet:
>
>   time openvpn [options] --secret key --cipher x
>
> Transfer a large file by FTP, then (on both machines):

good idea :) But i think i will just believe your notion that 80+ % is 
crypto.



JonB