On Wed, 2016-12-21 at 11:39 -0500, Rik van Riel wrote: > Does anybody still have a P4? > > If they do, they're probably better off replacing > it with an Atom. The reduced power bills will pay > for replacing that P4 within a year or two.
Well, maybe they have millions of units to replace. > > In short, I am not sure how important the P4 > performance numbers are, especially if we can > improve security for everybody else... Worth adding that the ISN or syncookie generation are less than 10% of the actual cost of handling a problematic (having to generate ISN or syncookie) TCP packet anyway. So we are talking of minors potential impact for '2000-era' cpus. Definitely I vote for using SipHash in TCP ASAP. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
