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About

Virtru Private Keystore (for Virtru Solutions)

Install

The tool is docker based and must be pulled down in order to perform CKS testing.

docker pull containers.virtru.com/cks-tool:v1.1.0 

The docker command is expected to run 1 time and terminate after it writes output to the console. The tool constructs a valid request to CKS and uses Apache AB to make the specified number of requests at the specified concurrency level.

Example

This example will connect to the cks and run 10 requests at 10 concurrent requests.

docker run --rm containers.virtru.com/cks-tool:v1.1.0 \
--hostname="cks.customerdomain.com" \
--hmac_id="000000000000000000@token.virtru.com" \
--hmac_secret="000000000000000000000000" \
--concurrency=10 \
--num_requests=10 \
--validate_crypto

Benchmarks

We were able to increase requests per second and utilize the hardware more fully by using multiple CKS docker containers.

Note

Recommendations

The optimal performance for the load testing performed was obtained using a ratio of:

• 1 = nbproc
• .25 physical core count = nbthread
• .75 physical core count = number of cks containers