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Re: RSA on general-purpose CPU's [was:RE: Secure peripheral cards]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Young)
Mon Mar 25 00:38:15 2002
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Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 17:00:12 -0800
From: Eric Young <eay@pobox.com>
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>Adam Back wrote:
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>>openSSL on a PIII-633Mhz can do 265 512 bit CRT RSA per
>>second, or 50 1024 bit CRT RSA per second. So wether it will
>>even speed up current entry-level systems depends on the
>>correct interpretation of the product sheet.
>>
I don't know what the OpenSSL people did to the x86 ASM code, but SSLeay
(the precursor to OpenSSL, over 3 years old) did/does 330 512bit and
55 1024 bit
RSAs a second on a 333mhz celeron (linux and/or win32). You should be
seeing
numbers like 600 and 100. The company I work for has 70 1024's per second
on the celeron 333. It used to build this way (and with this
performance) for
most x86 boxes.....
eric
PS The SSLeay version I tested was '0.9.1a 06-Jul-1998', which is
what is in
\bin on my laptop.
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