On 09/27/2010 05:12 AM, David Smith wrote: > 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.
ah, ok. i'll add encrypting messages to the benchmarking script i'm building. (i aim to publish it shortly so other people can post their results) > 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. :-) Sounds better than my NSLU2 :) I'm happy folks are still using old hardware. The hardware upgrade treadmill sucks. --dkg
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