1 .TH "page_rsa" 3 "11 Jan 2012" "Version 1.5.2" "Heimdal crypto library" \" -*- nroff -*-
5 page_rsa \- RSA - public-key cryptography
6 RSA is named by its inventors (Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman) (published in 1977), patented expired in 21 September 2000.
8 Speed 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
10 name 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 -- --
12 See the library functions here: \fBRSA functions\fP