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A comment on Why Not WireGuard (2020).

Re:Why Not WireGuard (2020) by jagger27 on Sunday October 17, 2021 @11:25AM (#28897135)
Can anyone speak to the performance and power efficiency of ChaCha20 on current mobile devices? That seems to be the only convincing technical argument the author makes given AES-NI’s ubiquity.
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Re:Why Not WireGuard (2020) by flatiron on Sunday October 17, 2021 @12:23PM (#28897561)
Chacha is just a little slower on devices with aes-ni and much faster on devices without.
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