On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 08:37:06PM -0600, Zooko O'Whielacronx wrote: > It is the time it takes to generate a new key pair. (I suspect that > the RSA keypair generation in Crypto++ is not optimized.)
To some extent the problem is algorithmic, not implementation: generating an RSA key pair requires finding 2 large primes, which can be done relatively quickly using a wide variety of sieves and other tricks, BUT generating an ECDSA keypair requires simply choosing a random point and a small number of point multiplications (which are themselves quite fast (and probably quite well optimized in Crypto++)). -Jack _______________________________________________ tahoe-dev mailing list [email protected] http://allmydata.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev
