Re: Are RSA opertaions cheap? (was Re: Suggestion for SOI wrt PFS)

[Henry Spencer <henry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Angelos D. Keromytis wrote:
> If your box cannot support 3 million peers anyway, but it can support 
> 1 million peers with a simpler protocol (and corresponding implementation),
> which should you work towards ?

Depends on details.  If the simpler protocol gives a performance advantage
equal to, say, six months of hardware improvement, that is questionable as
a criterion for selection in protocol standardization.  That sort of edge
would matter only if all else were equal, or very nearly so.  In such a
case, the simplicity is a stronger argument than the performance advantage.

If the advantage is equal to five years' hardware improvement, that's more
substantive. 

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx