17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Looks like these guys haven't noticed that Diffie-Hellman was added to RSAREF 2.0. Even with its highly suboptimum exponentiation code, I can generate a 1K bit key in roughly 20 seconds on a 50 Mhz 486, assuming precomputation of the first phase of the protocol (generating a random number and exponentiating it). That's much faster than generating a transient RSA key pair. Phil