Encryption takes 20 seconds !!

[Adrian von Bidder]

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On Tuesday 02 September 2003 03:58, Ben Finney wrote:
> On 01-Sep-2003, Humberto Rueda wrote:
> > [encryption of a single line] takes 18-20 seconds to finish.  GPG was
> > installed on a Sun machine with Solaris environment on it.
> >
> > What could be the reason?
>
> What is the CPU, and what speed is it running at?  Perhaps it is slow at
> doing anything CPU-intensive.

SPARC without hardware multiplication? GPG compiled for a SPARC without hw=
=20
mul? (I know that ssl speeds up by something like 10 fold when the compiler=
=20
is told to use SPARC with hwmul - search in the debian lists for the=20
discussion, was quite a while ago).

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=2D-=20
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