[Cryptography] OpenSSL minimal "safe" configuration?

[Salz, Rich]

> I noticed that OpenSSL uses only 1 core, even when "no-threads" is *not*
> specified.
> 
> Although thread libraries seem to get loaded, the heavy computation is still
> only done by one core.
> 
> I presume that this is to counter some attack?
> 
> Is there a link/reference to this attack?

No, it's because multi-core stuff is not portable.

The whole world is not an x86 :)

	/r$