Date: Sat, 6 Jul 1996 18:09:06 -0700 From: "Neil C. Jensen" <njensen@salsa.habaneros.com> To: "'dunn@harborcom.net'" <dunn@harborcom.net> Cc: "'freebsd-isp@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Apache-SSL Message-ID: <01BB6B66.39B7BE80@jalapeno.habaneros.com>
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See below regarding speed (from the SSL-user archives). I believe that Netscape uses RSAref, although I am not sure on this. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Young (eay@mincom.oz.au) wrote: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 17:26:16 +1000 (EST) After a very long Saturday, I've finally got Montgomery multiplication in my Big Number libraries. What does this mean for you guys? Well the speed of the RSA operation in the next version of SSLeay will be about 2 times faster that that in 0.6.0 :-). (I have also incorperated Colin Plum's window exponentiation (sp?)). I consider this a very big deal since my library is now 7-8 times faster than RSAref (for linux) and from what I have heard, I'm probably faster than the BSAFE toolkit, or at least similar speed. Now I know you probably all don't give a damn about this and would prefer SSLv3 or shared library support first, but this is the lind of stuff I like doing :-). This has been on my TODO list for at least a year. I am now actually happy with the performance of the Bignumber library part of SSLeay. Previously I was only happy with the ciphers and message digests :-). I have to thank Colin Plum and others like Wei Dai who I have corresponded about this stuff, and in the case of Colin, most of the techniques which make my library fast are from him. ---------- From: Bradley Dunn[SMTP:dunn@harborcom.net] Sent: Saturday, July 06, 1996 2:48 PM To: njensen@salsa.habaneros.com Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Apache-SSL On 6 Jul 96 at 10:25, Neil C. Jensen wrote: > I agree with the comments about slower response for the secure server, > however this should be reduced in the future, as I believe that Eric Young > (developer of SSLeay) is currently doing a lot of work on speed improvements. Does anyone know how the speed compares to Netscape? Bradley Dunn <dunn@harborcom.net> Harbor Communications
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