Beyond Curve25519

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Fri Jan 16 08:51:59 CET 2015


On Fri, 16 Jan 2015 00:15, hanno at hboeck.de said:

> For gpg generally I'd assume performance really doesn't matter that
> much.

Symmetric encryption performance is actually a problem because the CFB
mode of OpenPGP along with the SHA-1 MDC imposes a limit which could be
lifted by using a different encryption mode.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner


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