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| author |  https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawl9sYlePmv1xK-VvjBdN-5doOa_Xw-jH4U <Richard@web> | 2013-08-02 07:21:50 +0000 |
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| committer |  admin <admin@branchable.com> | 2013-08-02 07:21:50 +0000 |
| commit | 1b7d802ecbc9b619e4a9493340a5b29e2174597c (patch) | |
| tree | 6ba7e16ea64d26ed3e0c07932ef1a8032f159b9e /doc/todo/faster_gnupg_cipher | |
| parent | f939545ffc9801fd69574cbb7c873d7128548b81 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/doc/todo/faster_gnupg_cipher/comment_2_36e1f227a320527653500b445f7c001c._comment b/doc/todo/faster_gnupg_cipher/comment_2_36e1f227a320527653500b445f7c001c._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..08f69d6b8 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/faster_gnupg_cipher/comment_2_36e1f227a320527653500b445f7c001c._comment @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawl9sYlePmv1xK-VvjBdN-5doOa_Xw-jH4U" + nickname="Richard" + subject="comment 2" + date="2013-08-02T07:21:50Z" + content=""" +Using symmetric keys is significantly cheaper, computation-wise. + +The scheme of encrypting symmetric keys with asymmetric ones is ancient, well-proven, and generally accepted as a good approach. + +Using per-key files makes access control more fine-grained and is only a real performance issue once while creating the private key and a little bit every time more than one file needs to be decrypted as more than one symmetric key needs to be taken care of. +"""]] |