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I've had a question about PFS for a while now: How 'expensive' is it to implement? First up, let me state for the record that I don't have personal experience
by IvyMike 13y ago
I've had a question about PFS for a while now: How 'expensive' is it to implement?
First up, let me state for the record that I don't have personal experience with running SSL on a server. But back in the day, generating a public/private key pair for PGP was a semi-expensive operation. Definitely not the kind of thing I could imagine running on a per session basis.
Since PFS requires per-session public/private key pairs, how "costly" is it?
(I understand that the goog uses ECDHE, so I guess I'm asking for a general feel for how quickly and efficient this compares to RSA key generation.)
- agilebyte 13y agoThe article mentions 23% reduction in speed for ECDHE-RSA vs RSA. Another example states between 15% and 27% reduction.
- IvyMike 13y agoThanks! I knew I should have read the article more carefully. (The same section of the article also references http://vincent.bernat.im/en/blog/2011-ssl-perfect-forward-secrecy.html http://vincent.bernat.im/en/blog/2011-ssl-perfect-forward-se... which answers some of my follow on questions.)