[pubcookie-dev] Why is the Public Key used?

[Nathan Dors]

On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Lawrence Greenfield wrote:

> I think a new module that used AES and SHA-1 with only symmetric
> operations would be perfectly acceptable and would reduce the
> computational burden. I have trouble evaluating the cost/benefit
> tradeoffs of creating such a module, though.

Me too ... if the primary benefit is performance it
might be worth asking how much better it'd get. And
would it really matter given the existing SSL overhead.

-Nathan