Another day I've read "CryptoSwift Helps Meet Client Demands" in June issue of "Server/Workstation Expert." I have no idea why do I get this magazine... In either case they wrote about Rainbow's "RSA in hardware" card. They claim that it took 100% of CPU time to serve ~3 users on 167 MHz Ultra-1 and ~4 - on 200 MHz PPro with software RSA while with Rainbow card it would took 20-30 users to saturate the CPU. I find the first figures unfair. I'm *not* saying they cheat to make their product look good. It's a great product featuring hardware random generator and off-RAM storage for private keys. I simply believe that software (i.e. OpenSSL) can do better than 3-4 users. No, I don't feel like doing what they did to benchmark OpenSSL:-) There is another aspect I wonder about. It's obvious that they've compared against RSAref library, right? So I wonder if OpenSSL users who link with RSAref could run 'apps/openssl speed rsa dsa' and submit the results (to me if you wish, I can summarize) along with CPU description. Andy. ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
