[openssl-users] OpenSSL version 1.1.1 pre release 3 published

[Dennis Clarke]

On 20/03/18 08:03 PM, Viktor Dukhovni wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Mar 20, 2018, at 5:55 PM, Dennis Clarke <dclarke at blastwave.org> wrote:
>>
>>                   sign    verify    sign/s verify/s
>> rsa 4096 bits 0.082541s 0.001186s     12.1    843.0
> 
> That seems remarkably slow, is that expected with this CPU?

I find it interesting that nearly every version of OpenSSL for the past
  five years will report "inf" performance on one of my sparc units :


$ /usr/local/bin/openssl version
OpenSSL 1.1.0g  2 Nov 2017

$ /usr/local/bin/openssl speed rsa1024
Doing 1024 bit private rsa's for 10s: 28 1024 bit private RSA's in 0.00s
Doing 1024 bit public rsa's for 10s: 1964 1024 bit public RSA's in 0.00s
OpenSSL 1.1.0g  2 Nov 2017
built on: reproducible build, date unspecified
options:bn(64,32) rc4(char) des(int) aes(partial) idea(int) blowfish(ptr)
compiler: /opt/solarisstudio12.4/bin/cc -DDSO_DLFCN -DHAVE_DLFCN_H 
-DNDEBUG -DOPENSSL_THREADS -DOPENSSL_NO_STATIC_ENGINE -DOPENSSL_PIC 
-DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_MONT -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_GF2m -DSHA1_ASM -DSHA256_ASM 
-DSHA512_ASM -DMD5_ASM -DAES_ASM -DGHASH_ASM -DECP_NISTZ256_ASM 
-DPOLY1305_ASM -DOPENSSLDIR="\"/usr/local/ssl\"" 
-DENGINESDIR="\"/usr/local/lib/engines-1.1\""
                   sign    verify    sign/s verify/s
rsa 1024 bits 0.000000s 0.000000s      Inf      Inf
$

I always find that interesting.

Dennis