if CPU time is the bottleneck ... [LWN.net]

if CPU time is the bottleneck ...

Posted Feb 14, 2008 1:52 UTC (Thu) by Blaisorblade (guest, #25465)
In reply to: if CPU time is the bottleneck ... by njs
Parent article: Multi-threaded OpenSSH

I've rerun your test with similar results.
However, I can't verify right now, but I'm pretty sure that blowfish is 
faster for some applications - I've enabled it by default for file 
transfer on some embedded (read: slow) Linux boxes.

Where possible, I've ever enabled arcfour128 (read RC4, used with some 
care to avoid known vulnerabilities). Which is a lot faster than AES both 
on my Core2 and on my embedded MIPS 300MHz boxes.

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