[sldev] https very slow.

Jason Giglio gigstaggart at gmail.com
Wed Jul 11 11:01:46 PDT 2007


Dale Glass wrote:
> type        16 bytes   64 bytes    256 bytes  1024 bytes  8192 bytes
> aes-128 cbc 106414.88k 110166.80k  111630.30k 112218.07k  112954.03k
> aes-192 cbc 94869.67k  97565.29k   99250.35k  99177.31k   98961.55k
> aes-256 cbc 85501.83k  87546.11k   88859.48k  89190.40k   89300.99k
> 
> So, my box can do aes-256 at about 90MB/s on one core.
> 
> I don't think I've seen much more than 300KB/s normally, so that's about
> 3ms. For the viewer it's really insignificant.
> 
> Of course it's a lot more significant for the sim, but the average
> amount of data being transferred should be well below 300 KB/s per
> agent.

RC4 would be a more relevant benchmark.  RC4 is likely an order of 
magnitude faster than aes-256.

I know I was filling up 100mbit LAN to max possible speed with RC4, on 
CPUs 4 years ago using scp -c arcfour.

If the client is using aes-256, it should be using RC4 instead.

-Jason




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