[WireGuard] wireguard comparing to fastd - tests

Jason A. Donenfeld Jason at zx2c4.com
Tue Aug 16 14:17:19 CEST 2016


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> From: jens <jens at viisauksena.de>
>
> thx, thats true ... we were mostly interested in comparing speed in
> similar setups that we would deploy.
> But you ' re right - reducing workload from 20 to 12 in cypher make
> them not directly comparable


Alternatively, you could pretty easily tweak wireguard to use
chacha20/12 by changing "for (i = 0; i < 20; i += 2) {" to "for (i =
0; i < 12; i += 2) {" in src/crypto/chacha20poly1305.c.

Would be interested in fair side-by-side benchmarks of the two.


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