[MLB-WIRELESS] IPSEC

[andrewg at d2.net.au]

> 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.
>

I've seen it written that using an AES patch as opposed to 3DES increases
the throughput by a fair bit. YMMV. (I think it was related to freeswan.org
that I saw.)

Thanks,
Andrew Griffiths




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