Re: MD5 is slow

[Chris Adams via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

Once upon a time, nanog () immibis com <nanog () immibis com> said:
> A hash is also way faster than 5ms to compute. I suggest doing your own benchmark. Run it on an old raspberry pi or 
> one of Amazon's cheapest ARM servers to be sure it's comparable to typical router CPU hardware.

I don't know what's common right this minute (as I haven't been shopping
for routers for a bit), but for example, all the Juniper MXes outside of
the MX80 have been competent-to-beefy Intel CPUs.  I don't think the
routers likely to be running a lot of BGP are going to be using some
low-end CPU.
-- 
Chris Adams <cma () cmadams net>
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