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Ephemeral RSA

To: ashar@miraj.eng.sun.com, Ashar.Aziz@eng.sun.com
Subject: Ephemeral RSA
From: hugo@watson.ibm.com
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 94 12:24:08 EST
Cc: ipsec@ans.net, yacov@faline.bellcore.com

Ref:  Your note of Thu, 15 Dec 94 14:53:46 PST (attached)

Ashar,

>>From hugo@watson.ibm.com Wed Dec 14 19:18:44 1994
>>Just for the amusement: if you count ONLY real-time
>>operations, then using ephemeral RSA keys is significantly
>>more efficent than DH.
>
>:-) Well, this is amusing. Are you proposing we do this, or was this
>just an FYA?

To prove that it was just for fun I am answering this on Saturday...

Besides, it is a good exercise on how one can abuse the
arguments of disregarding off-line operations and extrapolation
of computing power growth.

Hugo

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