I don't know if this will help but here are some stats from our humble little server.
Hardware: 2 3gig xeon cpu's 2 gig ram 70 gig hardware raid 1 Linux AS 3 We can generate 1 certificate(1024 bits key length) at .02 seconds per certificate. It would probably be faster if we didn't create the pkcs12 file and convert that to hex at the same time. We're gearing up to generate 3.2 million certificates if anyone is interested in the results. cheers! --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It depends what you mean by small. A good idea > would be to see of a 200 mHz P1 will do the job. > > Next - if you can forward your results to me I'd be > very interested. > > Depending what you are serving a power power > processor like this should be able to keep a T1 > full. But this will depend on the mix you have > running. Most things in a website do not have to be > encrypted. > > Also - please advise what manufacturer is building > those ARM machines. I've been looking for something > like this. Thanks. > > Terrell Larson > > > On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 12:03:24PM -0500, Stuart > Yoder wrote: > > > > We are making a CPU selection for a system and are > wondering how much in > > terms of CPU horsepower/MIPS it takes to run > Openssl. > > > > Specific question-- would a 180 Mhz ARM processor > with 64MB of SDRAM be > > enough to run a small SSL enabled webserver with > decent performance? > > Any experience out there with low end processors > and OpenSSL? > > > > Thanks much. > > > > Stuart Yoder > ______________________________________________________________________ > OpenSSL Project > http://www.openssl.org > User Support Mailing List > openssl-users@openssl.org > Automated List Manager > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
