authspeed - determine authentication delays

Last update: May 4, 2022 17:05 UTC (dbea9b7d4)

Table of Contents

• Synopsis
• Description
• Options
• Files

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Synopsis

authspeed [ -cdm ] [ -n loops ] auth.samplekeys

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Description

This program encrypts a test file and determines the authentication delay to use in the NTP configuration file. There are two choices of encryption algorithm, DES Cipher-Block-Chaining (DES-CBC) and Message Digest 5 (MD5).

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Options

-c

Select total cost of encryption. Default is value to use in the authdelay configuration command.

-d

Enable debug output. Default is no debug output.

-m

Enable MD5 algorithm. Default is DES-CBC algorithm.

-n loops

Specify the number of program loops. Default is 20,000.

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Files

./authstuff/auth.samplekeys - a representative list of keys

./authstuff/auth.speed - a listing of results for a representative set of architectures and compilers