Army signals security & "Clansmen" series radios

[David Howe]

> Hmm. OpenSSL can do around 55 2048 bit public key operations per second
> on my not-so-fast P2, so "ages" is, in fact, around 3 minutes. That
> doesn't strike me as a serious problem.
Bandwidth may be more of a factor than processor speed - and in fact,
apparently the CPU load of SSL is a major factor in web site design -
keeping as much of the transaction on the HTTP side of the wire as possible
and only "going secure" at checkout to take credit card details and process
the order.  This came up on BugTraq only today, while discussing Basic
Authentication over SSL.