Re: Question about time to generate certs from Martin Thomson on 2015-09-05 (public-webrtc@w3.org from September 2015)

From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2015 19:33:31 -0700
To: Justin Uberti <juberti@google.com>
Cc: Tim Panton new <thp@westhawk.co.uk>, "Cullen Jennings (fluffy)" <fluffy@cisco.com>, public-webrtc <public-webrtc@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CABkgnnVbAhv_B2awQVVddJ7WX_fM7_+SAVkMrg==gR2KYBHjZw@mail.gmail.com>

On 4 September 2015 at 19:08, Justin Uberti <juberti@google.com> wrote:
> We are about to land ECDSA in Chrome. At that point, I think browser caching
> and all other optimizations become meaningless.

Key generation is fairly trivial, but not as trivial as retrieving it
from storage.  However, I would still recommend key reuse for RSA
(sloooow) and for where you actually want to present some sort of
stable identity to peers.  In most cases, the default behaviour is
probably the best.

Received on Saturday, 5 September 2015 02:33:59 UTC