Much slower than other block cipher implementations?

Hi all, My understanding is that when you encrypt a file using GPG a random session key gets generated, that gets encrypted using public key crypto, and then that session key is used to encrypt the file using a regular block cipher. Why then does GPG only encrypt at about 12 MB/s when OpenSSL c

Re: Much slower than other block cipher implementations?

Hi Kosuke, On 5/12/2013, at 15:41 , Kosuke Kaizuka wrote: > Which version of GnuPG (ligcrypt) and OS are you using? We're using 1.4.11 on Ubuntu 12.04, on x86-64. The libgcrypt11 package is 1.5.0. > 3. GnuPG 2.0.x on x86-64 > Ligcrypt 1.5 branch does not support AES-NI yet on x86-64 environme