Request for feedback: how slow is your slowest MAAS cloud?

[Mike Pontillo]

On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 1:09 AM, John A Meinel <john.meinel at canonical.com>
wrote:

> Note also that I do have a stake here, as this is what we do for Juju. Its
> perfectly fine to wait 1s for a user-initiated login to get a response. But
> when you have 1000 agents that are restarting at the same time because you
> bounced the controller machine, it takes a *long* time for them all to get
> reconnected if you're spinning CPU cycles in a 1M iterated SHA hash loop.
> And it seems far more efficient to get 1M more time spent in brute force
> attacks by adding 20 bits (~5 more hex digits), to the key.
>

Well, also worth noting is that since the derived key is based on a shared
secret, we can cache it in memory and we don't need to generate it again
for every response. So I think it won't cause a significant performance
impact here.

Regards,
Mike
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