Jack Lloyd wrote: > 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.
Apparently this rather depends on platform and compiler options. I am reliably informed that GMP is not always faster. For those that really care it'd be cool if someone did a careful comparison. It would also be interesting to know why they differ. Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.thebunker.net/ "There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit." - Robert Woodruff --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
