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- From: gdmr@dcs.ed.ac.uk (George Ross)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.time.ntp
- Subject: Re: Reducing distribution clutter
- Message-ID: <41774@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 12:17:17 GMT
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- In article <9208161609.aa21356@huey.udel.edu>, Mills@UDEL.EDU writes:
- > ... (use: authspeed auth.samplekeys in the authstuff
- > subdirectory) ...
-
- Is there some reason this stuff couldn't be done by the server when it starts
- up, rather than being pre-computed? It would make it much easier to share
- configuration files between machines, and it would have the advantage of
- measurung the real keys (maybe the difference is insignificant). Or would it
- just be too slow, even with a reduced number of loops?
-
- Also (at least, according to the man-page), "authdelay" expects only one
- parameter. Is this for DES? MD5? Both? Neither? Is there something the
- man-page isn't telling us?
-
- Oh, MD5 authdelay on a Sun-3/60 is 846us. I suppose DES would be about
- 450-ish.
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