Nigel Metheringham wrote:

In theory, you could encrypt the message once with a session key, and
then distribute it n times, each time adding the packet which has the
session key encrypted with the public key of the recipient.

...which is the very thing making gpg encryption so slow :-)
The expensive part is the public key operation, not the symmetric encryption.


Stefan.
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