From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 10 11:37:59 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1D9516A4CE; Fri, 10 Dec 2004 11:37:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp2.server.rpi.edu (smtp2.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7077143D2F; Fri, 10 Dec 2004 11:37:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp2.server.rpi.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id iBABbq24002807; Fri, 10 Dec 2004 06:37:53 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200412101014.iBAAEict086798@grovel.grondar.org> References: <200412101014.iBAAEict086798@grovel.grondar.org> Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 06:37:52 -0500 To: Mark Murray , Colin Percival From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-CanItPRO-Stream: default X-RPI-SA-Score: undef - spam-scanning disabled X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding standalone RSA code X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 11:38:00 -0000 At 10:14 AM +0000 12/10/04, Mark Murray wrote: > >I must profess to having a degree of discomfort with duplicated >functionality. > >240k is not a big binary, and it sounds like your applet is one >that may get heavy use. Its not built for speed; how much of a >problem is this? Probably not any more than size... How much faster is hardware now than it was when RSA was first written? >If OpenSSL grows hardware BigNum support, your app will not >benefit; how will this affect the user? Is size really a concern? >I can't find a disk smaller than 10 GB at my local dealer. I am usually not too comfortable with duplication either, but I must confess that OpenSSL gives me a headache whenever I try to use it for much of anything. On the other hand, I have never actually used it for RSA :-) I will make a mild vote in favor of a small, well-written library for RSA, but I do not feel very strongly about it. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu