[Cryptech Tech] Tor consensus use case

[Linus Nordberg]

Joachim Strömbergson <joachim at secworks.se> wrote
Thu, 29 Jan 2015 14:44:33 +0100:

| Sounds like very easy requirements. We basically need something that can
| to RSA-4096 (2048 follows automatically) sign or verification in less
| than three minutes and we are good. It will be a wee bit faster than
| that too.

Depending on the interface to this thing, the requirements might be a
bit tighter than that. Just to be overly clear, blocking for "a long
time" on sign and verify operations will induce sadness.