-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 Robert Hübener wrote: > Andrew Berg wrote: >> Try signing/encrypting files that are tens, hundreds, or >> thousands of megabytes in size. Sure, your average machine can >> sign/encrypt messages that don't even fill a cluster without >> breaking a sweat, but if the sensitive data is large, RSA-4096 >> isn't a good choice unless a gov't agency wants that data. > The work for the RSA-part of the algorithm is always the same: It > only has to process either the hash of the message/file or the key > for the symmetric cipher. I don't completely understand. Does this mean that encryption/signature time is only dependent on the hash, and that RSA key size doesn't matter in this regard?
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