We don't need decrypt and encrypt to take the same amount of time. We need encrypt+decrypt from master to slave to take the same time as encrypt+decrypt from slave to master.
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Stephen Kent <[email protected]> wrote: > At 10:53 AM -0400 10/19/11, Danny Mayer wrote: > >> On 10/18/2011 12:42 PM, Kevin Gross wrote: >> >>> 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. >>> >> >> I very much doubt that encryption and decryption take the same length of >> time but I'm sure people with experience with this will be able to tell >> us definitively. Almost certainly you will have asymmetric delays in the >> network path anyway even if the path is identical in both directions. >> >> Danny >> > > For most symmetric algs, and many modes of use, the times are the same. > The timing tend to differ for asymmetric algs. > > Steve > -- Kevin Gross +1-303-447-0517 Media Network Consultant AVA Networks - www.AVAnw.com <http://www.avanw.com/>, www.X192.org
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