1<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> 2<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8"> 3<title>Heimdal crypto library: RSA - public-key cryptography</title> 4<link href="doxygen.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> 5<link href="tabs.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> 6</head><body> 7<p> 8<a href="http://www.h5l.org/"><img src="http://www.h5l.org/keyhole-heimdal.png" alt="keyhole logo"/></a> 9</p> 10<!-- end of header marker --> 11<!-- Generated by Doxygen 1.5.6 --> 12<div class="navigation" id="top"> 13 <div class="tabs"> 14 <ul> 15 <li><a href="index.html"><span>Main Page</span></a></li> 16 <li><a href="modules.html"><span>Modules</span></a></li> 17 <li><a href="examples.html"><span>Examples</span></a></li> 18 </ul> 19 </div> 20 <div class="navpath"><a class="el" href="index.html">Heimdal crypto library</a> 21 </div> 22</div> 23<div class="contents"> 24<h1><a class="anchor" name="page_rsa">RSA - public-key cryptography </a></h1>RSA is named by its inventors (Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman) (published in 1977), patented expired in 21 September 2000.<p> 25Speed for RSA in seconds no key blinding 1000 iteration, same rsa keys (1024 and 2048) operation performed each eteration sign, verify, encrypt, decrypt on a random bit pattern<p> 26name 1024 2048 4098 ================================= gmp: 0.73 6.60 44.80 tfm: 2.45 -- -- ltm: 3.79 20.74 105.41 (default in hcrypto) openssl: 4.04 11.90 82.59 cdsa: 15.89 102.89 721.40 imath: 40.62 -- --<p> 27See the library functions here: <a class="el" href="group__hcrypto__rsa.html">RSA functions</a> </div> 28<hr size="1"><address style="text-align: right;"><small> 29Generated on Wed Jan 11 14:07:38 2012 for Heimdal crypto library by <a href="http://www.doxygen.org/index.html"><img src="doxygen.png" alt="doxygen" align="middle" border="0"></a> 1.5.6</small></address> 30</body> 31</html> 32
