POST:Gaining ISDN Privacy with data encryption

Phil Karn karn at qualcomm.com
Fri Aug 12 22:34:44 PDT 1994


Looks like these guys haven't noticed that Diffie-Hellman was added to
RSAREF 2.0. Even with its highly suboptimum exponentiation code, I can
generate a 1K bit key in roughly 20 seconds on a 50 Mhz 486, assuming
precomputation of the first phase of the protocol (generating a random
number and exponentiating it). That's much faster than generating a
transient RSA key pair.

Phil






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