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Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2016 09:08:21 -0800 From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> To: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com> Cc: kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com, "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>, George Spelvin <linux@...encehorizons.net>, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, David Laight <David.Laight@...lab.com>, "Daniel J . Bernstein" <djb@...yp.to>, Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@...il.com>, Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>, Jean-Philippe Aumasson <jeanphilippe.aumasson@...il.com>, Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>, Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com> Subject: Re: Re: HalfSipHash Acceptable Usage On Wed, 2016-12-21 at 11:39 -0500, Rik van Riel wrote: > Does anybody still have a P4? > > If they do, they're probably better off replacing > it with an Atom. The reduced power bills will pay > for replacing that P4 within a year or two. Well, maybe they have millions of units to replace. > > In short, I am not sure how important the P4 > performance numbers are, especially if we can > improve security for everybody else... Worth adding that the ISN or syncookie generation are less than 10% of the actual cost of handling a problematic (having to generate ISN or syncookie) TCP packet anyway. So we are talking of minors potential impact for '2000-era' cpus. Definitely I vote for using SipHash in TCP ASAP.
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