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Re: crypto for the average programmer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Lloyd)
Sun Dec 18 00:07:31 2005
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Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 22:33:46 -0500
From: Jack Lloyd <lloyd@randombit.net>
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On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 05:41:48PM +0000, Ben Laurie wrote:
> No, OpenSSL is self-contained. There is, IIRC, an engine that uses GMP
> if you want, but its entirely optional; OpenSSL has its own bignum
> implementation that's just as good.
Last I checked, public key operations in OpenSSL were significantly faster
using the GNU MP engine - so "just as good" is perhaps not entirely
accurate. OpenSSL's BN library is still very fast compared to many other MPI
implementations, of course.
-Jack
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