Re: symbol catenation and montgomery

[phr-2000]

   The claim is that the modexp routines in both PGP and OpenSSL are
   faster than GMP. And that Zmodexp and MIRACLE are even faster, on
   Pentium hardware. I haven't used OpenSSL, but at least I have it
   installed, so perhaps I could try doing some benchmarks. 

If you want to benchmark OpenSSL, the simplest way is to just type 

  openssl speed rsa1024

on the command line.  This runs 1024-bit RSA operations (with CRT) for
20 seconds (encryption and decryption 10 seconds each) and prints the
time per operation.