Scott Krueger wrote:
>
> Dr Stephen Henson wrote:
>
> > What do you mean "hang"? Does it still produce the dots and pluses on
> > the output?
>
> Yes, I always get at least 3 lines of dot/pulse output. I sometimes get as
> much as a screenful of dot/pulse. By hang I mean the system is locked up.
> No mouse movement, no 3 finger salute, must power off.
>
What I meant was do you still get dots/pluses after the hangup. From
what you say it seems like there's no indication anything is still
running at all.
>
> I sent Andrew my DLL and gendh.exe. It worked fine for him, so it would
> seem to be a machine specific problem.
>
> He was also getting generation times of 34 minutes for a 1024 key, and 45
> minutes for a 2048 key. This will be unacceptable for my application, so
> I'm back to 512 as the length, which makes the issue moot for me; however, I
> hate not knowing the answer to things like this.
>
Well with me 1024 bits time varies consideably from 30s (really!) to 10
minutes this is a PII at 300 MHz.
Why do you need to keep generating parameters? Its more common to
generate lots of keys from one set of parameters or even hard code one
set.
The somwhat misnamed 'gendh' doesn't generate a key: it generates
parameters. Actual key generation isn't available with the command line
utilities but it is very fast because its just random number generation.
> Andrew also mentioned he was running MSVC with the latest Service Pack. I
> don't have the Service Pack 3 CD at home, so I will do the update on Monday
> or Tuesday and see if that resolves my problem. I have NT4 on another
> partition, and I tried that 1 time, and experienced the same results, so
> that would seem to point to my K6 ??
>
If it does that on NT then there might well be a hardware issue. The
symptom you describe do sound like a CPU lockup.
Steve.
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