Letter: Encryption, digital signatures and bandwidth

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Letter: Encryption, digital signatures and bandwidth

Published on October 19, 2007 - 01:34 PM

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Ms Spencer should address the bandwidth impact of employing both encryption and digital signatures. It would effectively triple or even quadruple the bandwidth requirements. If everyone did this it would increase latency significantly, to the point of a self denial of service.

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