Why ElGamal is important
ElGamal is the technology used for secure end-to-end encryption of
client messages, e.g. your torrent traffic. ElGamal computations are
lengthy (> 50 ms on a RaspBerry 2), that is why you should use
native math librararies (jbigi) like those supplied by our
distribution. Read all here.
We restored ElGamal reporting to make comparisons easier.
Once a message in a tunnel requires ElGamal en-/decryption, I2P
processes that in strict order with following messages in case of
outgoing client traffic and NTCP inbound destined for your local
client. I2Speed loads that traffic as individual messages onto the
job queue thread pool. This way dozens of subsequent messages may
bypass one inevitably long ElGamal computation.
Once you have a working jbigi loaded, you will see reported numbers
on the /stats page a bit higher than before when using I2Speed.
Reason is simple: Once you have more parallization, threads are more
likely to preempt each other.
Updated 200316
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