[zeromq-dev] CurveZMQ data encryption

[Michal Rajčan]

That's really nice if performance characteristics are the same as symmetric
enc., but is there any kind of measurement?
How did You came to the point that Curve25519 is comparable (in speed) to
symmetric encryption?

2015-08-26 12:10 GMT+02:00 Pieter Hintjens <ph at imatix.com>:

> On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 11:39 AM, Michal Rajčan <rajcanius at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > "Data is encrypted with the public key (and other information) and
> decrypted
> > with the secret key."
> >
> > That is the asymmetric encryption of data "problem", isn't it? Or am I
> > missing something?
>
> With ECC there is no symmetric/asymmetric choice. Or rather, it is
> asymmetric with the performance characteristics of symmetric.
>
> Read up on Curve25519 for more details.
>
> -Pieter
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