> On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Mark J Roberts wrote:
> 
> > Ian Clarke:
> > > Certainly, by removing a lot of the crypto in Freenet, you could probably come 
> > > up with a system that is faster,
> > 
> > Crypto is cheap. It's not Fred's bottleneck by a long shot.
> > 
> > The only legitimate slowdown is the latency of a PKI key agreement,
> > which requires a few packets back and forth. That's like 200ms.
> 
> You don't consider having to route data though other nodes all the time a 
> slowdown?

Mark was specifically mentioning crypto, not routing. Of course, exact numbers depend 
on the machine the node is running on, but the crypto itself isn't the bottleneck.

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