Re: Multithreaded gpg encryption of files

2015-06-30 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 30 Jun 2015 08:52, gnupgpac...@on.yourweb.de said: > multicore processors is used. Is there an enhancement for using more than > one core while de-/encrypting files? OpenPGP uses CFB mode and thus the encryption cannot be parallelized. However, with a modern Intel processor featuring the

Multithreaded gpg encryption of files

2015-06-30 Thread gnupgpacker
Hello, if encrypting big files (500 Mb...) with gpg-1.x, only one core of Intels multicore processors is used. Is there an enhancement for using more than one core while de-/encrypting files? Thanks + regards, Chris ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-u