On 31/08/16 16:18, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Adding is way cheaper > for a computer than multiplying, so your hardware will be able to > perform many, many more cryptographic operations with ECC than with > RSA.
That's a good argument for using EECDH in TLS, which is fair enough - with ephemeral keys it's legitimate to prioritise speed. But it's less applicable to PGP or x509, where the processing cost of the asym sig/crypt is comparatively small. A
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