I got Ray Lau's RIPEM Mac 0.7b1 for my Mac IIci. In signing and
enciphering short messages, using a "512-bit key size", it seemed to
operate almost instantaneously. So I took a ~250K byte Word file, and
uuencoded it, which made it about ~740K bytes. Signed-only (MIC-Clear)
took 20 wallclock seconds. Signed and enciphered (ENCRYPTED) took about 35
seconds. To me, this seems fast enough to do real work!
RIPEM is based on RSAREF. Has anyone on the list compared their own crypto
or a BSAFE-based verstion to an RSAREF-based version on the same machine?