cherry-picked these 3 commits from #8750

git cherry-pick 69c9ede9cf e7bfdcb463 4d41c6ae5e

• add benchmarking

• add caching and native requirement for p256verify / secp256r1

Signed-off-by: garyschulte garyschulte@gmail.com

Signed-off-by: garyschulte garyschulte@gmail.com
Co-authored-by: garyschulte garyschulte@gmail.com## PR description

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Signed-off-by: garyschulte garyschulte@gmail.com