Mailing List Archive: slow encryption

slow encryption

Jan 23, 1999, 10:12 AM

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I've built gpg 0.9.2 on an HP-UX 10.20 system. It seems to take about
20-25 minutes to encrypt a small amount of data (200 characters of text).
Is this normal?

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David Ellement <ellement@sdd.hp.com>

Re: slow encryption [ In reply to ]

wk at isil

Jan 24, 1999, 5:29 AM

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David Ellement <ellement@sdd.hp.com> writes:

> I've built gpg 0.9.2 on an HP-UX 10.20 system. It seems to take about
> 20-25 minutes to encrypt a small amount of data (200 characters of text).
> Is this normal?

It is a problem with the slow RNG. We are going to solve this by
using Brian Warner's EGD (Entropy Gathering Daemon) which is currently
under development.

Werner