- From: Tatu Ylonen <ylo@ssh.fi>
- Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 03:15:16 +0300 (EET DST)
- To: Dan Simon <dansimon@microsoft.com>
- Cc: "'ietf-tls@w3.org'" <ietf-tls@w3.org>
> 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.
An RSA computation is on the order of 0.1 seconds on a typical server
PC. That's not too bad, unless your application uses huge numbers
of very short-lived connections.
Tatu
Received on Wednesday, 24 April 1996 20:15:21 UTC