Andrew Berg wrote: > Try signing/encrypting files that are tens, hundreds, or thousands of > megabytes in size. Sure, your average machine can sign/encrypt > messages that don't even fill a cluster without breaking a sweat, but > if the sensitive data is large, RSA-4096 isn't a good choice unless a > gov't agency wants that data.
The work for the RSA-part of the algorithm is always the same: It only has to process either the hash of the message/file or the key for the symmetric cipher. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
