Impact of cipher and authentication to performance

[Guus Sliepen]

On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 10:47:59PM +0800, Terry T wrote:

> I am not aware of NTP. Pardon my ignorance, what's NTP.

I believe I misunderstood your previous email, I thought you meant that you were
broadcasting time information. NTP is the Network Time Protocol.

> The situation is, we are based in China where there is the infamous China
> Firewall that blocks practically everything unknown to the government. In
> the immediate past, we got by using OpenVPN to tunnel traffic through. For
> the past few weeks, the Firewall seems to be blocking all udp traffic that
> resembles openvpn. I've tried changing ports and IP address all to no avail.

Ok. Well, disabling encryption might make tinc faster, but it also gives the
Firewall a chance to see your traffic. Whether that is good or bad in your
case, I don't know.

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