On Jan 20, 8:23 pm, Eddy Nigg <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 01/20/2009 08:42 PM, Jean-Daniel:
>
> > Hello, I'm trying to generate a keypair using nss, but I encounter
> > some issue.
> > My key generation can take up to 30 seconds on a recent machine (Core
> > 2 Duo 2.2 Ghz) (most generation take less the 10 seconds, and
> > sometimes less than 5 seconds, but even 10 seconds is more than what I
> > expect).
>
> The key generation time is random too :-)
>

Of course, I don't expect it to be constant time. But, for example,
using OpenSSL, I can generate a keypair in less than one second, and
it rarely take more than 5 to 10 seconds.
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