On Mon, 1 Jun 2009 14:48:37 +1000 Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 09:46:23PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > > > > I don't even want to think about what this does to IPSEC rule creation > > rates, that that matters heavily for cell phone networks where > > hundreds of thousands of nodes come in and out of the server and each > > such entry requires creating 4 IPSEC rules. > > I completely agree. The zeroing of metadata is gratuitous. Zeroing long term keys makes sense but for the short lifepsan keys used on the wire its a bit pointless irrespective of speed (I suspect done properly the performance impact would be close to nil anyway) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
