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> This seems unnecessarily convoluted Sounds like a standard hybrid approach. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_cryptosystem https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wi
by jvolkman 10y ago
> This seems unnecessarily convoluted
Sounds like a standard hybrid approach. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_cryptosystem https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_cryptosystem
- openasocket 10y agoI get that part, but I don't see why they are encrypting it in the first place. It's being sent over SSL, so why bother? Plus, hybrid cryptosystems exist because symmetric encryption is much faster than asymmetric, which matters for large amounts of data. But this is (even before compression) probably only about a kilobyte of data. Why have the extra complexity?
- xyzzy123 10y agoBecause you can then store it encrypted until you're ready to process it.