On Sun, 27 Oct 2013 17:47, gn...@oneiroi.net said: > Numbers please? Or are you talking about personal/subjective impressions?
What about you running some benchmarks for us? Let's say: a 4k RSA key signed by 90 other 4k RSA keys, 8 2k RSA keys, and one 8k RSA key. For security reasons key signature chaching has been disabled (--no-sig-cache) because you obviously can't accept that in this high security theater. Run encryption+signature tests for 2 recipienst out of the set of these 100 keys. Compare that do a set of 2k keys with only one 4k key. Run these tests again on an average netbook. Shalom-Salam, Werner p.s. Once I did tests with off-the self smartcards. Signing a mail with 1k RSA key using these smartcards took more than one second - it was barely unusable for every days mail processing. Only when we moved to our own smartcards (the old AVR based 1k RSA keys) using a smartcards was actually usable (<100ms). You don't want to wait 10 seconds to decrypt a thread of 10 mails just to notice that it was only CCed office chitchat. -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
