[IPsec] DH keys calculation performance

"Prashant Batra (prbatra)" <prbatra@cisco.com> Tue, 26 July 2011 03:29 UTC

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From: "Prashant Batra (prbatra)" <prbatra@cisco.com>
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Hello,

The DH exchange (Calculation of Public/Private key and the Secret) in
IKEV2 Initial exchange 
seems to be very expensive. This is slowing down the overall IKEv2
tunnel establishment.
Is there a way to optimize it?


Regards,
Prashant