Re: MD5 is slow

Once upon a time, nanog@immibis.com <nanog@immibis.com> said:

A hash is also way faster than 5ms to compute. I suggest doing your own benchmark. Run it on an old raspberry pi or one of Amazon's cheapest ARM servers to be sure it's comparable to typical router CPU hardware.

I don't know what's common right this minute (as I haven't been shopping for routers for a bit), but for example, all the Juniper MXes outside of the MX80 have been competent-to-beefy Intel CPUs. I don't think the routers likely to be running a lot of BGP are going to be using some low-end CPU. -- Chris Adams <cma@cmadams.net>