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Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-sipp-ap-04.txt




Ran Atkinson says:
> In particular, performance issues remain with the use of keyed MD5.
> An untuned implementation of MD5 on a fast 64-bit commercial RISC
> processor only calculates at 20 Mbps; smaller and slower processors
> would not go so fast.  This does not bode particularly well for
> networks using FDDI or other high-speed technologies.  A commercially
> strong but less computationally expensive algorithm would be more
> desirable than MD5, IMHO.  I don't know of any such algorithms --
> suggestions are solicited.

I know of none, either. SHA is actually likely slower. Tuned
implementations of MD5 would, of course, be interesting to play with.

Perry


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