> And the answer I have > is that the hashing normally is faster via soft lib than an > engine/hardware.
Well, single block hashing is commonly faster in software, but hardware should beat it on multi-block operations. In other words one should aim for "synergetic" implementation engaging hardware only when it's advantageous. A. ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List openssl-dev@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]