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You can use Curve25519 as a cipher. It's just fairly slow, like all PKC. It's something like 600k cycles for 32 bytes, while AES is around 30 cycles for 8 bytes
by chipsa 12y ago
You can use Curve25519 as a cipher. It's just fairly slow, like all PKC. It's something like 600k cycles for 32 bytes, while AES is around 30 cycles for 8 bytes.
- tptacek 12y agoWhat specific construction are you thinking of?