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To: Roy Arends <roy@nlnetlabs.nl>
Cc: dnsop@cafax.se
From: Edward Lewis <lewis@tislabs.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 08:54:54 -0400
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004271328350.81086-100000@open.nlnetlabs.nl>
Sender: owner-dnsop@cafax.se
Subject: Re: Signing .de zone, different keysizes.

I'm replying only to dnsop only (as opposed to namedroppers).  There are a
lot of folks on both lists.

At 7:30 AM -0400 4/27/00, Roy Arends wrote:
>KEYsize  USR+SYS     (HMS)  TimeFactor Filesize          GrowthFactor
>DSA-512  15493  ( 4h18m13s)  1         399275361 (380Mb) 3.24
>RSA-512  22645  ( 6h17m25s)  1.46      462208257 (440Mb) 3.76

Not to take anything away from these numbers...RSA is known to be slower in
signing than DSA.  However, RSA is much, much faster in verification - last
I measured (in '96-'97), the difference was about 10.

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