Re: GPG encryption and decryption takes excessive time.

On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 01:30:06PM +, Green, Ian wrote: > Hi > Firstly, my knowledge of GPG is very weak and I am not a UNIX administrator, > so my access and knowledge are rather limited. > > I have been asked to set up file encryption / decryption of files > transferred between our SUN OS

Re: GPG encryption and decryption takes excessive time.

On 19/02/18 21:54, Peter Lebbing wrote: > Since symmetric mode of GnuPG uses passphrase stretching, [...] Obviously I meant key stretching. Peter. -- I use the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) in combination with Enigmail. You can send me encrypted mail if you want some privacy. My key is available

Re: GPG encryption and decryption takes excessive time.

On 19/02/18 21:06, Dashamir Hoxha wrote: > Try symmetric encryption / decryption.  GnuPG uses hybrid encryption. Content is already encrypted with symmetric encryption, and only the randomly generated symmetric key, 16 or 32 bytes large usually, is encrypted asymmetrically to the recipient,

Re: GPG encryption and decryption takes excessive time.

On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 2:30 PM, Green, Ian wrote: > > Can anyone suggest anything to help reduce the time to something more > viable? > Try symmetric encryption / decryption. ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org

GPG encryption and decryption takes excessive time.

Hi Firstly, my knowledge of GPG is very weak and I am not a UNIX administrator, so my access and knowledge are rather limited. I have been asked to set up file encryption / decryption of files transferred between our SUN OS servers and two customer's servers. One customer is using a basic 2048