One of the applications we are working on requires us to generate RSA key pairs at a rate of about 20-25 key pairs/second is there any application out there which can do this?? is using /dev/random, /etc/entropy or accelerator card with RNG any faster?? and can this achieve the speed we require?
Unfortunately, developing an RSA key pair is inherently expensive. The RNG is not the speed-limiting factor, so a faster RNG won't help you very much. Last time I tried to optimize RSA key generation, I got to just over 2 keys (1024 bit) per second on a P3-1Ghz.
Geoff Thorpe and I had some ideas for improving the speed which we never implemented :-)
Cheers,
Ben.
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