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Ref: Your note of Mon, 09 Jan 1995 15:57:49 -0500 (attached)
>
> Ok, here's my non-scientific benchmarks, generated on my hp100lx,
> using pgp 2.6 with a 512 bit modulus on a 1k file. All times were
> taken manually with my wristwatch stopwatch, so assume +/- 10%
> sampling error or so.
>
> signing the file (pgp -s) takes 15 seconds.
> verifying the signature takes 3 seconds.
Thanks, Marc.
These are not very encouraging times.
Especially if they use Chinese reminder theorem in the RSA computation
(PGP does RSA signatures)
which means that a single DH exponentiation would take even more than
15 seconds.
Hugo
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