It does seem reasonable to consider modeling encryption and decryption in as part of network latency. As long as delays introduced are the same each direction, the sync protocols will naturally subtract out this contribution.
Kevin Gross On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Nico Williams <[email protected]>wrote: > > The cost of crypto can be measured, and performance generally > deterministic (particularly when there's no side channels in the > crypto) (assuming no mid-crypto context switches), so that it should > be possible to correct for the delays introduced by crypto (just as > it's possible to measure and estimate network latency). Indeed, > crypto processing will likely be more deterministic than network > latency :) > >
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