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		rishabhpoddar on Dec 18, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Sick of spending time on Auth, we built an open so... Yes. It was using HMAC. But I would still assume that RSA would be much faster than a db lookup (in a distributed system)?

WatchDog on Dec 18, 2020 [–]

Perhaps, at least on the JDK[0] RSA can take a few ms, probably a fair bit faster with a native implementation though.

[0] https://www.javamex.com/tutorials/cryptography/rsa_key_lengt...

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