It's cute to observe that Atalla having no RSA-specific form of mod_exp
causes a DSA server to achieve about 6 times as many signatures per
second than an RSA server. :-)
Atalla card, you should be able to compile with the "hw-atalla" switch
with "./config" or "perl Configure", and then you can use the command-
line switch "-engine atalla" inside speed, s_cient and s_server (after
checking out note (1)).
Notes:
(1) I've turned on native name translation when loading the shared-
library, but this means that the Unix shared library needs to be
libatasi.so rather than atasi.so. I got around this in my testing
by creating a symbollic link from /usr/lib/libatasi.so to the real
library, but something better will be needed. It also assumes in
win32 that the DLL will be called atasi.dll - but as I don't have
a win32/atalla environment to try I have no idea yet if this is
the case.
(2) Currently DSA verifies are not accelerated because I haven't yet
got a mod_exp-based variant of BN_mod_exp2_mont() that yields
correct results.
(3) Currently the "init()" doesn't fail if the shared library can
load successfully but the card is not operational. In this case,
the ENGINE_init() call will succeed, but all RSA, DSA, DH, and
the two BN_*** operations will fail until the ENGINE is switched
back to something that does work. I expect to correct this next.
(4) Although the API for the Atalla card just has the one crypto
function suggesting an RSA private key operation - this is in
fact just a straight mod_exp function that ignores all the RSA
key parameters except the (private) exponent and modulus. This is
why the only accelerator work is taking place inside the mod_exp
function and there's no optimisation of RSA private key operations
based on CRT etc.
whatever the underlying API is. It must return (void *) because shared
libraries can expose functions, structures, or whatever. However, some
compilers give loads of warnings about casted function pointers through
this code, so I am explicitly casting them to the right prototypes.
Also, "make update" has added some missing functions to libeay.num,
updated the TABLE for the alpha changes, and updated thousands of
dependancies that have changed from recent commits.
Don't give performance gain estimates that appear to be more precise
than they really are, especially when they are wrong
(2/(1/1.15 + 1) = ca. 1.0698).
OPENSSL_malloc and OPENSSL_free.
* 3 "normal" files (crypto/rsa/rsa_lib.c, crypto/dsa/dsa_lib.c
and crypto/dh/dh_lib.c) had their Malloc's and Free's missed
when Richard merged the changes across to this branch -
probably because those files have been changed in this branch
and gave some grief to the merge - so I've changed them
manually here.
was a really bad idea. For example, the following:
#include <x509.h>
#include <bio.h>
#include <asn1.h>
would make sure that things like ASN1_UTCTIME_print() wasn't defined
unless you moved the inclusion of bio.h to above the inclusion of
x509.h. The reason is that x509.h includes asn1.h, and the
declaration of ASN1_UTCTIME_print() depended on the definition of
HEADER_BIO_H. That's what I call an obscure bug.
Instead, this change makes sure that whatever header files are needed
for the correct process of one header file are included automagically,
and that the definitions of, for example, BIO-related things are
dependent on the absence of the NO_{foo} macros. This is also
consistent with the way parts of OpenSSL can be excluded at will.
because we're only handling words anyway) in BN_mod_exp_mont_word
making it a little faster for very small exponents,
and adjust the performance gain estimate in CHANGES according
to slightly more thorough measurements.
(15% faster than BN_mod_exp_mont for "large" base,
20% faster than BN_mod_exp_mont for small base.)
'p' more than once without an intervening sequence point. This behavior
is undefined." What it essentially complains about is 'p=p+=1'. Now it's
changed to 'p=p+1'...
