> On Mar 20, 2020, at 12:43 AM, Ralf Weber <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Moin!
> 
>> On 20 Mar 2020, at 1:13, Rob Sayre wrote:
>> The introduction says:
>> 
>> "DNS over QUIC (DoQ) has privacy
>>  properties similar to DNS over TLS (DoT) specified in RFC7858, and
>>  performance characteristics similar to classic DNS over UDP."
>> 
>> I think you might want to drop this text on performance characteristics,
>> since it seems to imply DNS over UDP has better performance characteristics.
> Well DNS over UDP has better performance characteristics than DoT and DoH.
> That is not up for discussion. That is a fact. You can get way above
> a million of DNS queries using regular DNS on a vanilla box, which is
> simply impossible with DoH/DoT no matter how good you tune your test or
> box. Latency in lab tests of DNS server usually is measured in microseconds
> and not milliseconds.
> 
> Simple common sense will tell you that an unencrypted protocol always will
> be faster than an encrypted protocol and that a stateless protocol (UDP)
> will be faster then a stateful protocol (TCP), because it doesn’t need to
> have any code for checking state. QUIC BTW is based on UDP.
> 

And common sense may or may not be right. For many implementations of Quic, 
encryptions is not the bottleneck. You can run AES GCM at 20 Gbps or more on a 
single CPU thread. The actual bottleneck is the cost of UDP socket operations.

-- Christian Huitema
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