[MLB-WIRELESS] IPSEC

[Adrian Close]

On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Jason Clarke wrote:

> From what I've read and played with, IPSEC is a protocol. So you should be
> able to connect anything to anything :-)
>
> (Don't try it on a P75 laptop though)

Actually, with a BSD OS (possibly Linux too), as long as you have a
reasonable amount of memory (say, 16MB) you should get OK performance out
of such a machine using something like 3DES (which is reasonably secure).

Given the traffic volumes people are probably talking about with wireless
links, a P75 should provide acceptable performance.

The real CPU eater is the asymmetric (public-key) crypto, but there isn't
much of that in IPSEC.

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