RSA very slow, takes 11ms in release

[Snowiiii]

Hello, I noticed that RSA key generation takes a long time, Like the README says release build do reduce the time, But 11ms for a 1024 Key is still a lot. I would love if there where some efforts going on to reduce generation time

[tarcieri]

When #394 lands we will switch to crypto-primes for key generation.

I would expect that to be faster but haven't benchmarked myself yet.

[r10s]

maybe related: #29 (cannot say much otherwise, only remembered that old issue i also ran into that time :)

[dignifiedquire]

The current crypto-primes branch has a rough slow down of 2x last time I benchmarked, see the PR for a description of why

[Snowiiii]

The current crypto-primes branch has a rough slow down of 2x last time I benchmarked, see the PR for a description of why

I don't see the Slower benchmarks, In the PR description are only a bunch of checkboxes.
I also wonder what the point of this PR is when it brings a 2 times slow down

[dignifiedquire]

I also wonder what the point of this PR is when it comes 2 times slower

Security: #19

[tarcieri]

@dignifiedquire they've recently added a number of improvements including parallel prime generation which haven't made it into a release yet.

Also, this seems relevant entropyxyz/crypto-primes#61

[dignifiedquire]

Glad to hear that, the slowdown I was referring to was not key generation but signing & verification operations