[Popcon-developers] encrypted popcon submissions

Ian Jackson ijackson at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Fri May 10 20:53:25 UTC 2013


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.

Ian.



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