Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On 09/24/2010 09:54 AM, David Shaw wrote: >> It won't work with the current generation of OpenPGP smartcards. It also >> will be dreadfully slow if you (or someone you are communicating with) ever >> uses the key on a small machine (think smart phone). If you are usually on >> a "full power" computer, then they generally have the CPU to spare for this >> sort of thing, and you'll rarely if ever notice a difference. > > i'm curious to see some quantitative data about what "dreadfully slow" > means.
Not truly "quantitative, but I notice a significant difference between encrypting emails to people with 1024-bit keys vs people with 4096-bit keys. I'd say that the difference is in the order 3-6 seconds. I'm running GnuPG 1.4.x on a Sun Ultra10 with a 500 MHz CPU and 1 GB RAM. Yes, I know it's old. :-) We're forced to use 4096-bit keys because some of our customers require it. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
