OpenSSH performance with VIA padlock

Darren Tucker dtucker at zip.com.au
Thu Nov 20 21:21:59 EST 2008


On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 04:10:27PM +0200, Jan Klod wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 November 2008 14:20:42 dtucker wrote:
[...]
> > Also as someone else mentioned, try a faster MAC such as umac64.
> Why should I, if I have padlock, which supports sha1/sha265?!

Your objective is to make it go faster, right?  This might help.

If it does that's a datapoint indicating that the MAC is the bottleneck
and if it doesn't then it's another datapoint indicating the the MAC is
*not* the bottleneck.

Anyway, I see Damien has also added some info to this thread.

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