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chipsa on Aug 31, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: ZeroTier: Network Virtualization Everywhere

You can use Curve25519 as a cipher. It's just fairly slow, like all PKC. It's something like 600k cycles for 32 bytes, while AES is around 30 cycles for 8 bytes.

tptacek on Sept 2, 2014 [–]

What specific construction are you thinking of?

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