Pär Svensson drew the same conclusion (that upgrading GMP would be good) in this thesis work:
http://www.ep.liu.se/exjobb/isy/2002/3308/ http://www.ep.liu.se/exjobb/isy/2002/3308/exjobb.pdf
/ Johan Schön (Firefruit)
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2003-01-28 19:36: Subject: Re: OpenSSL wrapper vs Pike's SSL (Was: Bz2)
It would be interesting with a current benchmark. At least GMP has undergone heavy optimization in recent years, which matters if it's the rsa computations that are the bottleneck.
/ Niels Möller ()