Re: Reasons to include ECC to our charter

[bmoeller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Bodo Moeller)]

Jon Callas <jon@xxxxxxxxxx>:

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> ECC does *not* affect the speed of large file encryption. Actually, it's
> the opposite; it matters most for *small* files.

You cannot expect elliptic curve based encryption to be faster than
RSA encryption.  Signing and decryption may be faster than for RSA or
DSA/ElGamal (but not necessarily when the platform is a PC or
workstations and if the modular exponentiation implementation is
reasonably well optimized), but it is hard to beat RSA public key
operations with small exponents.