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<a href="https://gitlab.com/jejb">James Bottomley</a>
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<p dir="auto">Well, I don't know what to say. The main reason for using an EC parent
for RSA keys is that TPM2_CreatePrimary for an RSA primary can take
minutes to run on a slow TPM ... you never want to have that happen
because the primary is generated on the fly for most key operations;
whereas an EC primary is an easy calculation and takes milliseconds
even on the slowest of TPMs. I didn't think anyone would be stupid
enough to try to do an ephemeral RSA primary, so I never bothered even
mentioning it in the docs.</p>
<p dir="auto">James</p>
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