Agreeing with Lutz's points, but querying a particular item ... On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Lutz Jaenicke wrote:
> * An AMD K6/500MHz will do approx 30 1024bit private RSAs per second. um, perhaps if you configure "no-asm -ggdb3"?? Otherwise I can only assume you're getting 30 ops/sec because someone is running timing attacks on the same machine you're running "speed" :-) > Thus a top notch 2GHz machine without hardware accelerator could do > around 120 RSA per second (of course, one cannot simply scale like I > have just done, but it gives an idea about the range we are talking about). I have a 1Ghz AMD that is in the ballpark of the speeds you mention. [Not that anything I've just said affects the points you were making.] Cheers, Geoff -- Geoff Thorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
