Timing test of GnuPG and old PGP

[Arild Bjørk]

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Hunter, Bryan wrote:

| Hi:
|
| A timing of a simple encryption of a large (327MB) file showed that GnuPG
| took 2 1/2 times longer than an old PGP program.  Is this an expected
| typical result?
|
| This was run with the following.
|
| Windows98 SP2
| WinPT 0.7.96rc1
| GnuPG 1.2.1
| GPG 6.0.2
| Key DSA/ELG 1024/2048
|
| Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated.


I did test my Celeron 2.0 laptop with 512 MB RAM. I encrypted a 177 MB
compressed ARJ-file. Both PGP 8.03 and GPG 1.2.3-nr1 from Nullify use
3DES for my key.

I encrypted the same file 3 times with each program. On average it took
1 minute and 09 seconds to encrypt the file in both GPG and PGP.

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iD8DBQE/om/Gn1hjZcCMxG0RAjXuAJ91W1KhbFxA8UX+OMKMn8jsCDThKwCfZBCl
kfplKmzRJsCtL0xNVOP4VnM=
=GLrV
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