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Re: is manual keying mandatory (fwd)

ho@earth.hpc.org (Hilarie Orman) Sun, 29 March 1998 03:21 UTC

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>   >>From a practical standpoint, Diffie-Hellman is
>   >extremely expensive in lessor-powered CPU's

>   This is good reason retain and fix the elliptic curve options in Oakley.

>   It's much faster and a better system solution than manual keys.

>   Paul

Can't be faster than pre-distributed manual keys, of course.  And the
conservative "fix" Certicom recommends  will slow down EC's quite a bit.

Hilarie

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