Re: [TLS] draft-sheffer-tls-bcp: DH recommendations

Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com> Wed, 18 September 2013 18:25 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] draft-sheffer-tls-bcp: DH recommendations
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James,

you got the citation wrong:

james hughes wrote:
> On Sep 9, 2013, at 7:30 PM, Michael Ströder <michael at stroeder.com> wrote:
> 
>> MBA-2:tmp synp$ openssl speed dsa1024 dsa2048
> […]
>>                  sign    verify    sign/s verify/s
>> dsa 1024 bits 0.000445s 0.000515s   2247.6   1941.8
>> dsa 2048 bits 0.001416s 0.001733s    706.4    577.2
> 
> 
> Is the complaint that the server load is too high? 

Numbers above were provided by Yoav as follow-up to my question. [1]

Personally I'm not scared by server load.

Ciao, Michael.

[1] http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/msg09836.html