Benchmarking OpenPGP operations with GnuPG [was: Re: how slow are 4Kbit RSA keys?]

2010-09-28 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 09/24/2010 05:23 PM, Grant Olson wrote: > I can test on a Motorola i1 (Boost' droid) with APG, but I'll only be > able to do a stopwatch test. As far as I'm concerned, under one sec is > good. i'd be interested in seeing the results, even if the mechanism is clunky (btw, you could also use a w

Re: per-user data signatures [was: Re: multiple keys vs multiple identities]

2010-09-28 Thread David Shaw
On Sep 24, 2010, at 1:17 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > second, what does "this option implies --ask-sig-expire ..." mean? it > seems to mean "this implies that the following options are not > available" or something like that. You are correct. The manual is incorrect. Setting force-v3-sigs

Re: how slow are 4Kbit RSA keys? [was: Re: multiple keys vs multiple identities]

2010-09-28 Thread David Smith
Jameson Rollins wrote: > We should be careful not to overstate the impatience of users too much. > I've seen plenty of people wait many seconds for google maps to load on > phones without giving up on the whole process. I also have an extremely > slow machine were I routinely have to wait a long t

Re: how slow are 4Kbit RSA keys? [was: Re: multiple keys vs multiple identities]

2010-09-28 Thread Chris Knadle
On Monday 27 September 2010 15:51:10 Jameson Rollins wrote: > On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:25:21 +0200, Ludwig Hügelschäfer wrote: > > Ack. 1.5 seconds is about the limit where a good GUI should issue a > > reaction. This is where the human mind is starting to think there's > > something wrong. > > We