On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 05:34:49PM +0200, Mounir IDRASSI wrote:
> So, the modular exponentiation with the public exponent of key2 is 4
> times slower that the signing operation of key1 and it should cost 4
> x 5 min = 20 min which is very close to the 21 min you actually
> obtained.
> 
> Does this answer your question?
>

yes, thanks.

i didn't know about the implementation details + openssl being visibly slower 
than
general purpose programs on generic 100K exponentiations added up to the
confusion. 

thanks.
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