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On Tuesday 20 May 2003 08:29, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <20030520120114.U60060@daneel.foundation.hs>, Heiko Schaefer 
writes:
> >but i still don't see why the processes that are named gbde-something
> >would take up _that_ much cpu time ... does that look reasonable and
> >explicable to you?
>
> The crypto work _does_ take time.  I am only just starting to measure
> how much for my GBDE paper now, so I don't really have anything
> to compare your numbers with.

    Would hardware crypto or hardware RNG help?

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