Re: [C++] Time to sign

2004-03-18 Thread Erwin van der Koogh
What platform are you on? I wonder if the generator has not been seeded properly for some reason? I am not an openssl guru, but in most other cryptographic toolkits I have seen it should make a big difference between the first and subsequent signs if this is the case. Does it happen to other

Re: [C++] Time to sign

2004-03-18 Thread Berin Lautenbach
Erwin, From the previous correspondance it's actually increasing in time over multiple signs. Which almost sounds like a /dev/random blocking until it has enough entropy to provide some bits? Of course there are other things it could be as well, so I'm just putting theories at the moment :.