[Cryptography Team] ECC and/or NSA Suite B?

Cerebus cerebus2 at gmail.com
Fri Nov 24 22:47:41 UTC 2006


On 11/24/06, Ron Teitelbaum <Ron at usmedrec.com> wrote:
> I already wrote the smalltalk version of SHA256, which works great but is
> slow.  We need the slang code now.

There's a couple of things that are really slow.  I've not had enough
patience yet to let Diffie-Hellman Group 2 keys finish generating on
my PB G4.

1024-bit RSA keys generate in a couple of seconds, though.  Why the difference?

-- Tim


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