OpenSAML user discussion

[Chris Card <>]

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> > Does the Java implementation of signing use the same underlying C libraries
> > for the crypto stuff (via JNI say) or is it implemented in Java?
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> No, it's pure Java. The layer in between is JCE. If you had a JCE provider that supported native code, it would more or less work, and there was a prototype version done on top of OpenSSL that we donated to Apache but it didn't get much use once the Java perf issues were fixed.
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One last question: what sort of throughput is it reasonable to expect from an opensaml IDP which is signing assertions?

Chris