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3.6 Packet security overhead

Capabilities occupy 72 bytes using generous 64-bit values for block numbers. The replay epoch number has 64 bits, the nonce plus random padding for encryption use 128 bits, and the MAC has 160 bits. Thus, the total security data in a disk request is 116 bytes compared to up to 8192 bytes of payload.


Mark Lillibridge 2003-01-06