Impact of cipher and authentication to performance

[Guus Sliepen]

On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 08:55:01PM +0800, Terry T wrote:

> Hi, I'm wondering how much performance boost there is to tinc if cipher and
> digest are set to none.
[...]
> Is there any additional ways to improve the performance and timeliness of
> the delivery of the multicast packets in tinc?

No, if you disable the cipher and digest, it cannot be improved further.
However, if it is not security sensitive, why not bypass tinc altogether? If
you are using NTP, you can just let all peers make a direct connection to the
NTP server.

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Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
     Guus Sliepen <guus at tinc-vpn.org>
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