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It's a burden on the DNS resolver side. 4096- or 8196-bit key operations aren't exactly cheap - and the time taken for the public key operation grows superlinea
by bdonlan 9y ago
It's a burden on the DNS resolver side. 4096- or 8196-bit key operations aren't exactly cheap - and the time taken for the public key operation grows superlinearly with the bit count (depending on the specific variant of the modpow algorithms in use, somewhere between O(b^1.585) to O(b^2)).
- tankenmate 9y agoNot to mention that on a slow resolver it might even trigger a time out and a SERVFAIL.