crypto for the average programmer

[Jack Lloyd]

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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