On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 05:41:48PM +0000, Ben Laurie wrote: > No, OpenSSL is self-contained. There is, IIRC, an engine that uses GMP > if you want, but its entirely optional; OpenSSL has its own bignum > implementation that's just as good.
Last I checked, public key operations in OpenSSL were significantly faster using the GNU MP engine - so "just as good" is perhaps not entirely accurate. OpenSSL's BN library is still very fast compared to many other MPI implementations, of course. -Jack --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
