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
>



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