Hi There

Could someone please tell me why openssl is so fast at generating large (
1024bit and up ) keys. I've seen other examples that use basic modular
exponentiation and a good large integer library to generate keys. In fact
this was done in mathematica which uses the GMP library - wiki. But when
1024 bit keys are generated with this, it takes 10 to 100 times longer than
what openssl does. Is it only montgomery reduction that makes such a
difference or something else? I did search on the topic and didn't come up
with anything.
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