Re: Benmark for SSLeay

[Arun Sharma <adsharma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 03:17:28AM +0530, Ravi Prakash B.V. wrote:
> hi to everybody,
> This is my first mail to the mailing list.
>  I need a help in SSLeay.  Using ssleay I am generating certificates,
> signature, CSR etc....
>  What's I need is  :
> 1. Is there bench marking to compare different algorithms(RC4, DES, IDEA
> etc) used in encryption and signing..(MD5, SHA  etc).

I don't know about SSLeay, but there are benchmarks for a different
implementation at: http://www.eskimo.com/~weidai/benchmarks.html

> 2.  What's the overhead in terms of bits added with message blocks while
> sending the encrypted data in the ssl session?

If the block size you've chosen is the same, then the algorithm doesn't
matter. One way of measuring this is to cold start your machine, do a
large number of SSL transactions and then look at the packet counts.

	-Arun