$ /usr/sfw/bin/amd64/openssl speed rsa dsa -engine pkcs11 engine "pkcs11" set. Doing 512 bit private rsa's for 10s: 19703 512 bit private RSA's in 9.43s Doing 512 bit public rsa's for 10s: 167241 512 bit public RSA's in 9.49s Doing 1024 bit private rsa's for 10s: 3932 1024 bit private RSA's in 9.34s Doing 1024 bit public rsa's for 10s: 56437 1024 bit public RSA's in 9.63s Doing 2048 bit private rsa's for 10s: 651 2048 bit private RSA's in 9.19s Doing 2048 bit public rsa's for 10s: 25750 2048 bit public RSA's in 9.62s Doing 4096 bit private rsa's for 10s: 177 4096 bit private RSA's in 9.39s Doing 4096 bit public rsa's for 10s: 6950 4096 bit public RSA's in 9.22s Doing 512 bit sign dsa's for 10s: 18157 512 bit DSA signs in 9.12s Doing 512 bit verify dsa's for 10s: 9950 512 bit DSA verify in 9.30s Doing 1024 bit sign dsa's for 10s: 6906 1024 bit DSA signs in 9.57s Doing 1024 bit verify dsa's for 10s: 3532 1024 bit DSA verify in 9.57s Doing 2048 bit sign dsa's for 10s: 3344 2048 bit DSA signs in 9.56s Doing 2048 bit verify dsa's for 10s: 1608 2048 bit DSA verify in 9.25s OpenSSL 0.9.8a 11 Oct 2005 built on: date not available options:bn(64,64) md2(int) rc4(ptr,char) des(ptr,cisc,16,int) aes(partial) blowfish(ptr) compiler: information not available available timing options: TIMES TIMEB HZ=100 [sysconf value] timing function used: times sign verify sign/s verify/s rsa 512 bits 0.000479s 0.000057s 2089.4 17622.9 rsa 1024 bits 0.002375s 0.000171s 421.0 5860.5 rsa 2048 bits 0.014117s 0.000374s 70.8 2676.7 rsa 4096 bits 0.053051s 0.001327s 18.8 753.8 sign verify sign/s verify/s dsa 512 bits 0.000502s 0.000935s 1990.9 1069.9 dsa 1024 bits 0.001386s 0.002710s 721.6 369.1 dsa 2048 bits 0.002859s 0.005752s 349.8 173.8