RE: Merged Transport Layer Protocol Development

>From: 	Tatu Ylonen[SMTP:ylo@ssh.fi]
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>I just wish to say that I also agree that special processing for
>pre-encrypted data is a Bad Idea.  A 90-MHz Pentium can encrypt fast
>enought to completely fill an ethernet (the ethernet becomes the
>limiting factor), and the processing speed is doubling every year.
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>The overhead from encryption is negligible all but the most
>high-volume servers connected to the Internet by something faster than
>10Mbits/sec.  (Unless you also do a lot of CPU-intensive processing
>that competes for CPU.)

My impression is that asymmetric decryptions of master keys require more
than enough "CPU-intensive processing" to put CPU time at a premium in
the typical high-volume secure server.


				Daniel Simon
				Cryptographer, Microsoft Corp.
				dansimon@microsoft.com


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