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Re: [Sks-devel] peer request for pgp.uplinklabs.net


From: Andrew Gallagher
Subject: Re: [Sks-devel] peer request for pgp.uplinklabs.net
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 17:01:14 +0100
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On 31/08/16 16:18, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> Adding is way cheaper
> for a computer than multiplying, so your hardware will be able to
> perform many, many more cryptographic operations with ECC than with
> RSA.

That's a good argument for using EECDH in TLS, which is fair enough -
with ephemeral keys it's legitimate to prioritise speed. But it's less
applicable to PGP or x509, where the processing cost of the asym
sig/crypt is comparatively small.

A


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