On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 21:24 -0400, Dan McDonald wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 03:38:19PM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> > Actually, I think what happened is that the world switched to AES.
>
> That'd explain it too.
>
> > I suspect the SCA 4000 3DES performance is probably *still* faster than
> > typical commodity CPUs. (Certainly than SPARCs.)
>
> When the SCA 4k shipped, the DES/3DES IPsec was using was hardly optimized.
> I wonder how EF's DES/3DES would hold up against an SCA 4k?
We compared it to highly optimized hand tuned 3DES code. (Ferenc's
implementation, which is AFAIK what is in EF.)
>
> > The SCA 4000 had either no or greatly reduced AES performance. (I don't
> > recall whether the final version had a 5823 on it or not... we certainly
> > had talked about it.)
>
> It had no AES in it, AFAIK.
That sounds right.
Thanks,
-- Garrett
>
> Dan
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