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doc: remove statement about (EC)DHE performance #41528

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  • This statement is misleading in that it says "key generation is expensive". ECDHE key generation (over the elliptic curves that are commonly used for TLS) is insanely fast compared to most other types of key generation.
  • This statement is irrelevant for TLS 1.3, which requires (EC)DHE.
  • Even if this statement is somewhat true for TLS 1.2, it does not justify discouraging the use of (EC)DHE.

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All these changes are really good 🙇

tniessen added a commit that referenced this pull request Jan 16, 2022
This statement is misleading in that it says "key generation is
expensive". ECDHE key generation (over the elliptic curves that are
commonly used for TLS) is insanely fast compared to most other types
of key generation.

This statement is irrelevant for TLS 1.3, which requires (EC)DHE.

Even if this statement is somewhat true for TLS 1.2, it does not
justify discouraging the use of (EC)DHE.

PR-URL: #41528
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com>
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Landed in 986cf3b. Thanks @benjamingr and thanks all for reviewing!

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mawaregetsuka pushed a commit to mawaregetsuka/node that referenced this pull request Jan 17, 2022
This statement is misleading in that it says "key generation is
expensive". ECDHE key generation (over the elliptic curves that are
commonly used for TLS) is insanely fast compared to most other types
of key generation.

This statement is irrelevant for TLS 1.3, which requires (EC)DHE.

Even if this statement is somewhat true for TLS 1.2, it does not
justify discouraging the use of (EC)DHE.

PR-URL: nodejs#41528
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com>
thedull pushed a commit to thedull/node that referenced this pull request Jan 18, 2022
This statement is misleading in that it says "key generation is
expensive". ECDHE key generation (over the elliptic curves that are
commonly used for TLS) is insanely fast compared to most other types
of key generation.

This statement is irrelevant for TLS 1.3, which requires (EC)DHE.

Even if this statement is somewhat true for TLS 1.2, it does not
justify discouraging the use of (EC)DHE.

PR-URL: nodejs#41528
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com>
BethGriggs pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Jan 25, 2022
This statement is misleading in that it says "key generation is
expensive". ECDHE key generation (over the elliptic curves that are
commonly used for TLS) is insanely fast compared to most other types
of key generation.

This statement is irrelevant for TLS 1.3, which requires (EC)DHE.

Even if this statement is somewhat true for TLS 1.2, it does not
justify discouraging the use of (EC)DHE.

PR-URL: #41528
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com>
Linkgoron pushed a commit to Linkgoron/node that referenced this pull request Jan 31, 2022
This statement is misleading in that it says "key generation is
expensive". ECDHE key generation (over the elliptic curves that are
commonly used for TLS) is insanely fast compared to most other types
of key generation.

This statement is irrelevant for TLS 1.3, which requires (EC)DHE.

Even if this statement is somewhat true for TLS 1.2, it does not
justify discouraging the use of (EC)DHE.

PR-URL: nodejs#41528
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com>
danielleadams pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Feb 26, 2022
This statement is misleading in that it says "key generation is
expensive". ECDHE key generation (over the elliptic curves that are
commonly used for TLS) is insanely fast compared to most other types
of key generation.

This statement is irrelevant for TLS 1.3, which requires (EC)DHE.

Even if this statement is somewhat true for TLS 1.2, it does not
justify discouraging the use of (EC)DHE.

PR-URL: #41528
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com>
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