aes performance

[Olaf Selke]

John Brooks schrieb:
> 
> All of that aside, the encryption speed is a non-issue here. Unless
> you're using a large portion of a gigabit connection, AES will work far
> faster than your line speed on a modern processor.

it depends :-) I supposed cpu encryption speed being the limiting factor
for the majority of the top 20 nodes:
http://trunk.torstatus.kgprog.com/index.php?SR=Bandwidth&SO=Desc

With aes-128 and 16 byte blocks my node would be limited to 42 MBit/s
even if all cpu time would be spend within aes crypto, which isn't very
realistic.

Olaf