Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 08:15:29 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Getting rid of libgmp Message-ID: <3B530511.C8E861E1@mindspring.com> References: <20010714130715.6A27738FD@overcee.netplex.com.au>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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