Bill Allombert writes ("encrypted popcon submissions"): > The drawback is the computing cost on the server. Currently we are > processing about 25000 report each days, which would require about 2 > hours of 'real' CPU time to decrypt, which is too much for > popov.debian.org. On the other hand this is easily parallelisable. Is that using RSA ? If so then perhaps EC El Gamal would perform better, if it's available in the relevant versions of gnupg. Ian.