Adam Back wrote: > openSSL on a PIII-633Mhz can do 265 512 bit CRT RSA per > second, or 50 1024 bit CRT RSA per second. So wether it will > even speed up current entry-level systems depends on the > correct interpretation of the product sheet. > > And the economics of course depends on how expensive they are > relative to general purpose CPUs, plus the added complexity > of using embedded hardware and drivers and getting to play > with your web server. General purpose CPUs are _really_ fast > and cheap right now.
Newer general-purpose CPU architectures offer even better performance: one of the sample program for IA-64 that Intel has published on their Itanium performance benchmark CDROM handed out at tradeshows clocks about 1000 1024-bit RSA signings per second on an 800 MHz Itanium CPU. --Lucky --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]