[Popcon-developers] encrypted popcon submissions
Bill Allombert
Bill.Allombert at math.u-bordeaux1.fr
Sat May 11 09:51:37 UTC 2013
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 09:53:25PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Bill Allombert writes ("encrypted popcon submissions"):
> > The drawback is the computing cost on the server. Currently we are
> > processing about 25000 report each days, which would require about 2
> > hours of 'real' CPU time to decrypt, which is too much for
> > popov.debian.org. On the other hand this is easily parallelisable.
>
> Is that using RSA ? If so then perhaps EC El Gamal would perform
> better, if it's available in the relevant versions of gnupg.
My understanding is that the released version of gpg does not yet
include support for EC El Gamal.
But in any case, RSA/El Gamal are only used to encrypt the AES key used
to encrypt the file. the subsequent AES decryption should take the majority of
the running time.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>
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