Difference between OpenSSL versions System Version: OS X 10.8.4 (12E55) Kernel Version: Darwin 12.4.0 Model Name: MacBook Pro Model Identifier: MacBookPro10,2 Processor Name: Intel Core i7 Processor Speed: 2.9 GHz Number of Processors: 1 Total Number of Cores: 2 L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB L3 Cache: 4 MB Memory: 8 GB

OpenSSL 0.9.8x

OpenSSL 0.9.8x 10 May 2012
built on: Apr 27 2013
options:bn(64,64) md2(int) rc4(ptr,char) des(idx,cisc,16,int) aes(partial) blowfish(ptr2)
compiler: -arch x86_64 -fmessage-length=0 -pipe -Wno-trigraphs -fpascal-strings -fasm-blocks -O3 -D_REENTRANT -DDSO_DLFCN -DHAVE_DLFCN_H -DL_ENDIAN -DMD32_REG_T=int -DOPENSSL_NO_IDEA -DOPENSSL_PIC -DOPENSSL_THREADS -DZLIB -mmacosx-version-min=10.6
available timing options: TIMEB USE_TOD HZ=100 [sysconf value]
timing function used: getrusage
The 'numbers' are in 1000s of bytes per second processed.
type             16 bytes     64 bytes    256 bytes   1024 bytes   8192 bytes
md5              38143.69k   119545.89k   277327.98k   421224.64k   490718.66k
hmac(md5)        44242.06k   134438.19k   293790.30k   422019.19k   494423.98k
aes-128-cbc     170039.77k   180261.34k   180652.73k   183675.79k   184316.33k
aes-256-cbc     134118.17k   139409.38k   137316.74k   141434.10k   141356.07k
sha256           28026.63k    68129.47k   133706.87k   174197.11k   190001.40k
sha512           17881.04k    70711.63k   145642.06k   237958.34k   291830.79k
                  sign    verify    sign/s verify/s
rsa 4096 bits 0.029424s 0.000394s     34.0   2537.2
                              sign    verify    sign/s verify/s
 224 bit ecdsa (nistp224)   0.0002s   0.0008s   5787.7   1251.5
 256 bit ecdsa (nistp256)   0.0002s   0.0010s   4822.8   1004.9
 521 bit ecdsa (nistp521)   0.0005s   0.0026s   1946.9    380.4

OpenSSL 1.0.1e

OpenSSL 1.0.1e 11 Feb 2013
built on: Tue Jul 30 01:06:27 PDT 2013
options:bn(64,64) rc4(ptr,char) des(idx,cisc,16,int) aes(partial) idea(int) blowfish(idx)
compiler: cc -fPIC -fno-common -DOPENSSL_PIC -DZLIB_SHARED -DZLIB -DOPENSSL_THREADS -D_REENTRANT -DDSO_DLFCN -DHAVE_DLFCN_H -arch x86_64 -O3 -DL_ENDIAN -Wall -DOPENSSL_IA32_SSE2 -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_MONT -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_MONT5 -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_GF2m -DSHA1_ASM -DSHA256_ASM -DSHA512_ASM -DMD5_ASM -DAES_ASM -DVPAES_ASM -DBSAES_ASM -DWHIRLPOOL_ASM -DGHASH_ASM
The 'numbers' are in 1000s of bytes per second processed.
type             16 bytes     64 bytes    256 bytes   1024 bytes   8192 bytes
md5              73628.17k   215121.49k   448613.97k   613620.39k   693551.10k
hmac(md5)        50714.32k   161230.70k   382580.65k   575982.93k   687741.69k
aes-128-cbc     641533.32k   687496.81k   701280.68k   702194.35k   699692.69k
aes-256-cbc     469374.78k   495378.58k   499366.40k   501357.57k   501394.24k
sha256           54268.49k   118861.46k   208064.34k   255732.74k   275634.77k
sha512           41191.81k   161831.10k   256644.61k   368996.35k   426789.55k
                  sign    verify    sign/s verify/s
rsa 4096 bits 0.008642s 0.000136s    115.7   7374.0
                              sign    verify    sign/s verify/s
 224 bit ecdsa (nistp224)   0.0001s   0.0001s  14421.9   7391.3
 256 bit ecdsa (nistp256)   0.0001s   0.0003s   8765.6   3839.2
 521 bit ecdsa (nistp521)   0.0004s   0.0008s   2636.1   1205.2