On Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 12:46:05AM -0700, phildoch wrote: > I tested the generation of a certificate with a keypair RSA 4096 bit on two > different platforms. > > The openssl command I used is: > /openssl req -newkey rsa:4096 -keyout clientKey.pem -out clientReq.pem/ > > There was a huge difference in the time it took on each one of the > platforms. On a first Linux Station it took about 10 seconds. While in the > second Linux embedded board it took almost 2 minutes! > > Is the strength or efficiency of the processors the only way to explain the > difference of time? > > Is there a way to reduce the duration of the process?
The issue is probably getting good randomness and your Linux machine might not provide enough. Ciao, Marcus ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
