Decryption timing calibration

[Felix Finch]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 04:24:01PM +0200, Werner Koch wrote:
> We try to achieve that this decryption process takes about 100ms

That is fascinating -- I did not know that decryption was calibrated
to take a certain amount of time.  Very interesting.  I hope I haven't
misunderstood.

How much variation is there for a given calibration -- how do you
create generic canned packages for wide distribution?  Gentoo compiles
everything and could easily calibrate itself; RedHat, Debian, and most
others distribute binaries and can't.  I'd think that could lead to a
pretty wide range of decrypt times.

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