Re: Re: Hardware acceleration using VIA Padlock (was Re: [Openvpn-users] a couple of questions)

Den 25. jun 2004, kl. 9:48, skrev James Yonan:

> "Eric E. Bowles" <eric@xxxxxxxxxx> said:

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> > I got access to a 1GHz VIA C3 box and tried the command using OpenVPN 
> > 1.6
> > and patched OpenSSL library; here are the results:
> >
> >         Stock           Patched
> >         OpenVPN         OpenVPN
> >
> > real    1m13.084s       0m47.655s
> > user    1m12.570s       0m47.560s
> > sys     0m0.020s        0m0.010s
> >
> > I see a 34% improvement with hardware acceleration enabled.
>
> Interesting.  Note that this percentage might be off what you will see 
> in real
> usage, because --test-crypto is doing other stuff like generating a 
> lot of
> strong pseudo-random numbers to fill up the test packets.
>
> OpenVPN is also doing per-packet authentication using the HMAC/SHA1 
> algorithm,
> I wonder if this is hardware accelerated as well?

only in the next version of the cpu.



JonB



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