Re: Affect of encryption

From: Darren J Moffat (darrenm@eng.sun.com)
Date: 08/14/01 

Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 10:22:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: Darren J Moffat <darrenm@eng.sun.com>
To: "Ivanov, Vladimir" <VIvanov@tee.toshiba.de>
Subject: Re: Affect of encryption
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0108141020360.162164-100000@jurassic>

On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Ivanov, Vladimir wrote:

> How does encryption affected to NFS traffic?
>
> I've seen in "Managing NFS and NIS" 2nd edition that
> sec=krb5p
> makes about 73% of throughout degradation on SUN Ultra5 270MHz/128Mb
>
> Unfortunatly, it's not clear, how this will affect more powerfull
> machines.

It really depends on exactly what you are doing with NFS, the power of
the server and client and the data mix you request/send.

They only way to truely tell is to try it for your self.

> Also, is it possible to use 3DES instead DES when unsing SecureNFS?

Not at this time no. Kerberos in Solaris doesn't support 3DES just now.

> Does someone have made such tests?

There might be something on http://www.connectathon.org 

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Darren J Moffat