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Re: Intel IPSEC accelerator gives 3DES protected 100Mbit Ethernet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Young)
Thu Sep 16 15:36:31 1999
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Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:50:01 +1000
From: Eric Young <eay@pobox.com>
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John Gilmore wrote:
> raw data rate, since 10-20% is used by packet headers/trailers/interpacket
> spacing/etc. And I've never seen software 3DES run at 32 Mbits/sec;
> what processor were they using?
On a pentium II 350, I get triple DES in cbc-ede mode doing 23.2
Mbits/sec
(Mbits == 1e6). The DES cbc mode numbers are 65 Mbits/sec.
So doing the simple maths, I get a 482 mhz, or I'd say a pentium 2/3
500.
eric
