hi, well, first of all, let me thank you for the mail again.
i was thinking the same thing yesterday morning: if you need your CPU to do other things, the cryptographic hardware can help you. the problem is when you only need cryptographic results in a real-time large process (let's say talling votes from an election, which is what i'm doing). in this kind of applications you really need speed. obviously everything is not cryptographic calculations, there is access to disks, network... but crypto is a major one. anyway, your mail has helped me to think about security risks using hardware or not. and i'll take everything into account. regarding to speed again, GMP is a really cool "kick ass" (sorry for the expression) library, we've used it for some mathematicals calculations, instead of using OpenSSL BN. if you've done a wrapper with GMP... let me say that we'll have to spend lots of money in hardware to be as fast as in software. thanks again. best regards, aleix ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
