On Sep 24, 2010, at 4:29 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > Are there other interpretations of the above results? does anyone else > want to post comparable data points on different hardware? How powerful > is a typical smartphone anyway? What kind of a cutoff are people > willing to accept in terms of CPU cycles per signature validated? or am > i measuring the wrong thing entirely?
Sort of, yes. You are measuring verify performance. At it happens, that is the operation that RSA really excels at, CPU-wise. Try measuring signing or decryption performance instead. People on smartphones don't just verify signatures :) "Dreadfully" is a difficult thing to enumerate anyway. For me, FWIW, it would be "over 1-2 seconds". David _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
