CPU usage of WPA TKIP

[Jouni Malinen]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 11:46:55AM +0200, Thomas Gabriel wrote:

> Iam wondering wether encrypting traffic using wpa-tkip will hit the cpu of
> my system?

Host AP driver implements TKIP in the driver and as such, host CPU
will be used for this. TKIP (RC4+CRC32) does not take that much CPU,
especially with IEEE 802.11b cards. Of course, if you are already
running low on available CPU, this may limit the available maximum
throughput.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA