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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
Cc: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Getting rid of libgmp
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Peter Wemm wrote:
> > > Comments?  Suggestions?
> >
> > Benchmarks, proving that you increased, or at least did not
> > injure performance with this change?
> 
> This isn't really relevant.  There are only a couple of things that use it.
> Namely the secure rpc key generators, the secure diffie hellman rpc key
> exchange, and telnet SRA key exchange at startup.  None of these use it
> more than once (or once per connection).
> 
> telnet is already linked against libcrypto. It should be using
> that for bignum support instead of libmp.
> 
> libmp is dead. libcrypto is the interface of choice to use these days,
> or libgmp.  Nothing in our tree uses libgmp.

We currently can do 600 1024 bit SSL connections a second, and
expect to double that via interface changes.

So performance _is_ relevent.

-- Terry

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