Our crypto accelerator uses Montgomery's Method. Just as in OpenSSL's eay RSA functions, the chip has pre-calculation initialization steps. I can tell the chip to just do them each time, but of course it is faster to only do it once for each modulus (n, or p and q) and cache the results to use with future calculations.
I noticed that eay does the BN_MONT_CTX_set() only once. To me, that looks like an assumption that the modulus in the RSA structure will not be altered during the structure's lifetime. Is that true? I hope so. Another question - my understanding is that the SSL server will mostly be doing private key decryptions in RSA key exchange - correct? Tom Biggs ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
