On Fri, Jan 07, 2005, Perry L. Jones wrote:

> I have some code that is useing PKCS7_verify and SMIME_write_PKCS7 and 
> on large files these functions are noticable slow.  I have looked 
> through the openssl code and see that these function are only reading 
> and writing from arrays that are only 4096 bytes in size.  I need to 
> speed up these function and would like to know if I can just incress 
> this buffer size of if theres is some other trick to making them faster?
> 
> I am currently using openssl version 0.9.7d
> 

I've noticed that using detached content with a memory BIO and PKCS7_verify
(this will occur with cleartext signed data) has a number of inefficiencies
which can be resolved fairly easily.

I've committed a fix which will appear in the next snapshots.

Steve.
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