Sorry again, I have just shown how little I know about RSA signature
algorithms. If you're doing things the usual way (RSA PSS), you only
do one RSA decryption, not 32. RSA is still probably the  limiting
factor though. :)

On Oct 6, 9:10 pm, Tim Lovell-Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Oh I'm sorry, I forgot the subject line of your post. SHA-1 and RSA.
> The most time consuming part will probably be the RSA decryption
> operations.
>
> Operation       Milliseconds/Operation  Megacycles/Operation
> RSA 1024 Encryption     0.07    0.13
> RSA 1024 Decryption     1.52    2.78
>
> These /Operation measures refer to time to encrypt/decrypt 1 KB
> blocks. Processing 32KB as 32 blocks of 1024 bytes, so just multiply
> the milliseconds/operation by 32.
>
> On Oct 6, 9:02 pm, Tim Lovell-Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Do you mean checking the hash result against a known value, or doing a
> > digital signature (e.g. RSA/ECDSA) verification?
>
> > I think that these benchmark results are for a long stream of data, so
> > you may wish to apply them with a grain of salt when guessing the time
> > taken to hash just 32KB. But if you look at MiB/Second (mebibyte/sec
> > basically megabyte/sec), this might give you a rough idea of the
> > speed. e.g. SHA-256 does about 81 MB/sec, assuming you can keep it fed
> > with data that fast. The rest is just maths - 81MB/sec is (81*32) *
> > 32KB/sec, so you might be able to do about 2400 such hashes per second
> > - although there will be more overhead in doing 2400 small chunks of
> > 32 KB than in doing one chunk of 81MB.
>
> > On Oct 6, 3:39 pm, Cyptmon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > Hi All,
>
> > > I am new to cryptography and was looking for answers to the following
> > > questions. I saw the speeds of the various cryptographic algorithms
> > > herehttp://www.cryptopp.com/benchmarks.html, and was wondering how I
> > > can use them. I had the following question in particular
>
> > > If I want to calculate the time for hashing 32KB of data and then
> > > verify the signature of this hashed value, how can I do it?
>
> > > Thanks for all the help in advance


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