[Opendnssec-develop] SoftHSM - Signing speed

[Rickard Bondesson]

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SoftHSM is now working in 64-bit mode. The speed is improved significantly compared with 32-bit mode.

With SoftHSM in 64-bit mode

RSA1024 key:
./hsm-speed -s 1 -p apaapa123 -f 3 -t 4 -i 100000 090107080129230036
6025.85 sig/s

RSA2048 key:
./hsm-speed -s 1 -p apaapa123 -f 3 -t 4 -i 20000 090107090658261676
1337.67 sig/s

> It is on a 4 core 64 bit Sun OS machine.
> 
> With SoftHSM:
> 
> RSA1024 key:
> ./hsm-speed -s 1 -p apaapa123 -f 3 -t 4 -i 100000 081212083059184661
> 2052.76 sig/s
> 
> RSA2048 key:
> ./hsm-speed -s 1 -p apaapa123 -f 3 -t 4 -i 20000 081212093603519314
> 386.54 sig/s
> 
> With 64-bit OpenSSL:
> 
> openssl speed rsa1024 -multi 4: 8239.2 sig/s
> openssl speed rsa2048 -multi 4: 1368.9 sig/s
> 
> With 32-bit OpenSSL:
> 
> openssl speed rsa1024 -multi 4: 1301.8 sig/s
> openssl speed rsa2048 -multi 4: 238.1 sig/s

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