diff --git a/benchmark/Microsoft.IdentityModel.Benchmarks/AsymmetricAdapterSignatures.cs b/benchmark/Microsoft.IdentityModel.Benchmarks/AsymmetricAdapterSignatures.cs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..badfc06600
--- /dev/null
+++ b/benchmark/Microsoft.IdentityModel.Benchmarks/AsymmetricAdapterSignatures.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+// Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
+// Licensed under the MIT License.
+
+#if NET6_0_OR_GREATER
+
+using System;
+using System.Buffers;
+using System.Security.Cryptography;
+using System.Text;
+using BenchmarkDotNet.Attributes;
+using Microsoft.IdentityModel.JsonWebTokens;
+using Microsoft.IdentityModel.Tokens;
+
+namespace Microsoft.IdentityModel.Benchmarks
+{
+    // dotnet run -c release -f net8.0 --filter Microsoft.IdentityModel.Benchmarks.AsymmetricAdapterSignatures.*
+
+    [Config(typeof(BenchmarkConfig))]
+    [HideColumns("Type", "Job", "WarmupCount", "LaunchCount")]
+    [MemoryDiagnoser]
+    public class AsymmetricAdapterSignatures
+    {
+        private byte[] _bytesToSign;
+        private byte[] _signatureBuffer;
+        private AsymmetricAdapter _rsaAsymmetricAdapter;
+
+        [GlobalSetup]
+        public void Setup()
+        {
+            SecurityTokenDescriptor securityTokenDescriptor = new ()
+            {
+                SigningCredentials = BenchmarkUtils.SigningCredentialsRsaSha256,
+                Claims = BenchmarkUtils.Claims,
+                TokenType = JwtHeaderParameterNames.Jwk
+            };
+
+            _bytesToSign = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes((new JsonWebTokenHandler()).CreateToken(securityTokenDescriptor));
+           _rsaAsymmetricAdapter = new AsymmetricAdapter(
+               BenchmarkUtils.SigningCredentialsRsaSha256.Key,
+               SecurityAlgorithms.RsaSha256,
+               SHA256.Create(),
+               SupportedAlgorithms.GetHashAlgorithmName(SecurityAlgorithms.RsaSha256),
+               true );
+
+            _signatureBuffer = new byte[256];
+        }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// In this case, dotnet creates a buffer to hold the signature.
+        /// ArrayPool is not used, because the buffer is created by the framework and not the user.
+        /// The buffer is not returned to the pool, and must be garbage collected.
+        /// </summary>
+        [Benchmark]
+        public void SignDotnetCreatingBufferRSA()
+        {
+            _rsaAsymmetricAdapter.Sign(_bytesToSign);
+        }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// In this case, the user obatins a buffer to hold the signature frm the array pool.
+        /// A new api available in .NET 5.0+ is used to provide the buffer to place the signature.
+        /// The size of the bytes written is returned in the out parameter, size.
+        /// </summary>
+        [Benchmark]
+        public void SignSpanWithArrayPoolRSA()
+        {
+            byte[] signature = ArrayPool<byte>.Shared.Rent(256);
+            _rsaAsymmetricAdapter.SignUsingSpan(_bytesToSign, signature.AsSpan(), out int size);
+            ArrayPool<byte>.Shared.Return(signature);
+        }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// In this case, the user has created a SINGLE global buffer to hold the signature.
+        /// This is not a recommended approach, because the buffer will be reused and signatures will get mixed up.
+        /// Is used to illustrate that using the array pool is cheap.
+        /// Uses a new api available in .NET 5.0 + to provide the buffer to place the signature.
+        /// The size of the bytes written is returned in the out parameter, size.
+        /// </summary>
+        [Benchmark]
+        public void SignSpanWithFixedBufferRSA()
+        {
+            _rsaAsymmetricAdapter.SignUsingSpan(_bytesToSign, _signatureBuffer, out int size);
+        }
+    }
+}
+#endif
diff --git a/benchmark/Microsoft.IdentityModel.Benchmarks/BenchmarkConfig.cs b/benchmark/Microsoft.IdentityModel.Benchmarks/BenchmarkConfig.cs
index f89730e3b7..0393edfc36 100644
--- a/benchmark/Microsoft.IdentityModel.Benchmarks/BenchmarkConfig.cs
+++ b/benchmark/Microsoft.IdentityModel.Benchmarks/BenchmarkConfig.cs
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 using BenchmarkDotNet.Configs;
 using BenchmarkDotNet.Jobs;
 using BenchmarkDotNet.Toolchains.InProcess.Emit;
+using Perfolizer.Horology;
 
 namespace Microsoft.IdentityModel.Benchmarks
 {
@@ -13,8 +14,12 @@ public class BenchmarkConfig : ManualConfig
         public BenchmarkConfig()
         {
             AddJob(Job.MediumRun
-                .WithToolchain(InProcessEmitToolchain.Instance))
-            .AddColumn(StatisticColumn.P90, StatisticColumn.P95, StatisticColumn.P100);
+                .WithToolchain(InProcessEmitToolchain.Instance)
+                .WithLaunchCount(4)
+                .WithMaxAbsoluteError(TimeInterval.FromMilliseconds(10)))
+                // uncomment to disable validation to enable debuging through benchmarks
+                //.WithOption(ConfigOptions.DisableOptimizationsValidator, true)
+                .AddColumn(StatisticColumn.P90, StatisticColumn.P95, StatisticColumn.P100);
         }
     }
 }
diff --git a/benchmark/Microsoft.IdentityModel.Benchmarks/Program.cs b/benchmark/Microsoft.IdentityModel.Benchmarks/Program.cs
index a79c3fac55..235542e2c5 100644
--- a/benchmark/Microsoft.IdentityModel.Benchmarks/Program.cs
+++ b/benchmark/Microsoft.IdentityModel.Benchmarks/Program.cs
@@ -1,12 +1,8 @@
 // Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
 // Licensed under the MIT License.
 
-//#define DEBUG_TESTS
-
-#if DEBUG_TESTS
 using Microsoft.IdentityModel.Protocols.SignedHttpRequest;
 using Microsoft.IdentityModel.Tokens;
-#endif
 using BenchmarkDotNet.Running;
 
 namespace Microsoft.IdentityModel.Benchmarks
@@ -15,15 +11,18 @@ public static class Program
     {
         public static void Main(string[] args)
         {
-#if DEBUG_TESTS
-            DebugThroughTests();
-#endif
+            //DebugThroughTests();
+
             BenchmarkSwitcher.FromAssembly(typeof(Program).Assembly).Run(args);
         }
-
-#if DEBUG_TESTS
         private static void DebugThroughTests()
         {
+            AsymmetricAdapterSignatures asymmetricAdapter = new AsymmetricAdapterSignatures();
+            asymmetricAdapter.Setup();
+            asymmetricAdapter.SignDotnetCreatingBufferRSA();
+            asymmetricAdapter.SignSpanWithArrayPoolRSA();
+            asymmetricAdapter.SignSpanWithFixedBufferRSA();
+
             CreateJWETests createJWETests = new CreateJWETests();
             createJWETests.Setup();
             string jwe = createJWETests.JsonWebTokenHandler_CreateJWE();
@@ -44,6 +43,5 @@ private static void DebugThroughTests()
             validateSignedHttpRequestAsyncTests.Setup();
             SignedHttpRequestValidationResult signedHttpRequestValidationResult = validateSignedHttpRequestAsyncTests.SHRHandler_ValidateSignedHttpRequestAsync().Result;
         }
-#endif
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/Microsoft.IdentityModel.Tokens/Properties/AssemblyInfo.cs b/src/Microsoft.IdentityModel.Tokens/Properties/AssemblyInfo.cs
index 65c4dee54d..f27198cc90 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.IdentityModel.Tokens/Properties/AssemblyInfo.cs
+++ b/src/Microsoft.IdentityModel.Tokens/Properties/AssemblyInfo.cs
@@ -13,11 +13,11 @@
 [assembly: CLSCompliant(true)]
 [assembly: ComVisible(false)]
 
-[assembly: InternalsVisibleTo("Microsoft.IdentityModel.Tokens.Saml, PublicKey=0024000004800000940000000602000000240000525341310004000001000100b5fc90e7027f67871e773a8fde8938c81dd402ba65b9201d60593e96c492651e889cc13f1415ebb53fac1131ae0bd333c5ee6021672d9718ea31a8aebd0da0072f25d87dba6fc90ffd598ed4da35e44c398c454307e8e33b8426143daec9f596836f97c8f74750e5975c64e2189f45def46b2a2b1247adc3652bf5c308055da9")]
-[assembly: InternalsVisibleTo("System.IdentityModel.Tokens.Jwt, PublicKey=0024000004800000940000000602000000240000525341310004000001000100b5fc90e7027f67871e773a8fde8938c81dd402ba65b9201d60593e96c492651e889cc13f1415ebb53fac1131ae0bd333c5ee6021672d9718ea31a8aebd0da0072f25d87dba6fc90ffd598ed4da35e44c398c454307e8e33b8426143daec9f596836f97c8f74750e5975c64e2189f45def46b2a2b1247adc3652bf5c308055da9")]
+[assembly: InternalsVisibleTo("Microsoft.IdentityModel.Benchmarks, PublicKey=0024000004800000940000000602000000240000525341310004000001000100b5fc90e7027f67871e773a8fde8938c81dd402ba65b9201d60593e96c492651e889cc13f1415ebb53fac1131ae0bd333c5ee6021672d9718ea31a8aebd0da0072f25d87dba6fc90ffd598ed4da35e44c398c454307e8e33b8426143daec9f596836f97c8f74750e5975c64e2189f45def46b2a2b1247adc3652bf5c308055da9")]
 [assembly: InternalsVisibleTo("Microsoft.IdentityModel.JsonWebTokens, PublicKey=0024000004800000940000000602000000240000525341310004000001000100b5fc90e7027f67871e773a8fde8938c81dd402ba65b9201d60593e96c492651e889cc13f1415ebb53fac1131ae0bd333c5ee6021672d9718ea31a8aebd0da0072f25d87dba6fc90ffd598ed4da35e44c398c454307e8e33b8426143daec9f596836f97c8f74750e5975c64e2189f45def46b2a2b1247adc3652bf5c308055da9")]
 [assembly: InternalsVisibleTo("Microsoft.IdentityModel.Protocols.SignedHttpRequest, PublicKey=0024000004800000940000000602000000240000525341310004000001000100b5fc90e7027f67871e773a8fde8938c81dd402ba65b9201d60593e96c492651e889cc13f1415ebb53fac1131ae0bd333c5ee6021672d9718ea31a8aebd0da0072f25d87dba6fc90ffd598ed4da35e44c398c454307e8e33b8426143daec9f596836f97c8f74750e5975c64e2189f45def46b2a2b1247adc3652bf5c308055da9")]
 [assembly: InternalsVisibleTo("Microsoft.IdentityModel.Protocols.SignedHttpRequest.Tests, PublicKey=0024000004800000940000000602000000240000525341310004000001000100b5fc90e7027f67871e773a8fde8938c81dd402ba65b9201d60593e96c492651e889cc13f1415ebb53fac1131ae0bd333c5ee6021672d9718ea31a8aebd0da0072f25d87dba6fc90ffd598ed4da35e44c398c454307e8e33b8426143daec9f596836f97c8f74750e5975c64e2189f45def46b2a2b1247adc3652bf5c308055da9")]
+[assembly: InternalsVisibleTo("Microsoft.IdentityModel.Tokens.Saml, PublicKey=0024000004800000940000000602000000240000525341310004000001000100b5fc90e7027f67871e773a8fde8938c81dd402ba65b9201d60593e96c492651e889cc13f1415ebb53fac1131ae0bd333c5ee6021672d9718ea31a8aebd0da0072f25d87dba6fc90ffd598ed4da35e44c398c454307e8e33b8426143daec9f596836f97c8f74750e5975c64e2189f45def46b2a2b1247adc3652bf5c308055da9")]
 [assembly: InternalsVisibleTo("Microsoft.IdentityModel.Xml, PublicKey=0024000004800000940000000602000000240000525341310004000001000100b5fc90e7027f67871e773a8fde8938c81dd402ba65b9201d60593e96c492651e889cc13f1415ebb53fac1131ae0bd333c5ee6021672d9718ea31a8aebd0da0072f25d87dba6fc90ffd598ed4da35e44c398c454307e8e33b8426143daec9f596836f97c8f74750e5975c64e2189f45def46b2a2b1247adc3652bf5c308055da9")]
 [assembly: InternalsVisibleTo("Microsoft.AzureAD.SmartSessionEvaluator, PublicKey=0024000004800000940000000602000000240000525341310004000001000100b5fc90e7027f67871e773a8fde8938c81dd402ba65b9201d60593e96c492651e889cc13f1415ebb53fac1131ae0bd333c5ee6021672d9718ea31a8aebd0da0072f25d87dba6fc90ffd598ed4da35e44c398c454307e8e33b8426143daec9f596836f97c8f74750e5975c64e2189f45def46b2a2b1247adc3652bf5c308055da9")]
 [assembly: InternalsVisibleTo("Microsoft.IdentityModel.KeyVaultExtensions.Tests, PublicKey=0024000004800000940000000602000000240000525341310004000001000100b5fc90e7027f67871e773a8fde8938c81dd402ba65b9201d60593e96c492651e889cc13f1415ebb53fac1131ae0bd333c5ee6021672d9718ea31a8aebd0da0072f25d87dba6fc90ffd598ed4da35e44c398c454307e8e33b8426143daec9f596836f97c8f74750e5975c64e2189f45def46b2a2b1247adc3652bf5c308055da9")]
@@ -33,3 +33,4 @@
 [assembly: InternalsVisibleTo("Microsoft.IdentityModel.S2S.Extensions.AspNetCore.Tests, PublicKey=0024000004800000940000000602000000240000525341310004000001000100b5fc90e7027f67871e773a8fde8938c81dd402ba65b9201d60593e96c492651e889cc13f1415ebb53fac1131ae0bd333c5ee6021672d9718ea31a8aebd0da0072f25d87dba6fc90ffd598ed4da35e44c398c454307e8e33b8426143daec9f596836f97c8f74750e5975c64e2189f45def46b2a2b1247adc3652bf5c308055da9")]
 [assembly: InternalsVisibleTo("Microsoft.IdentityModel.S2S.Tokens, PublicKey=0024000004800000940000000602000000240000525341310004000001000100b5fc90e7027f67871e773a8fde8938c81dd402ba65b9201d60593e96c492651e889cc13f1415ebb53fac1131ae0bd333c5ee6021672d9718ea31a8aebd0da0072f25d87dba6fc90ffd598ed4da35e44c398c454307e8e33b8426143daec9f596836f97c8f74750e5975c64e2189f45def46b2a2b1247adc3652bf5c308055da9")]
 [assembly: InternalsVisibleTo("Microsoft.IdentityModel.S2S.Tokens.Tests, PublicKey=0024000004800000940000000602000000240000525341310004000001000100b5fc90e7027f67871e773a8fde8938c81dd402ba65b9201d60593e96c492651e889cc13f1415ebb53fac1131ae0bd333c5ee6021672d9718ea31a8aebd0da0072f25d87dba6fc90ffd598ed4da35e44c398c454307e8e33b8426143daec9f596836f97c8f74750e5975c64e2189f45def46b2a2b1247adc3652bf5c308055da9")]
+[assembly: InternalsVisibleTo("System.IdentityModel.Tokens.Jwt, PublicKey=0024000004800000940000000602000000240000525341310004000001000100b5fc90e7027f67871e773a8fde8938c81dd402ba65b9201d60593e96c492651e889cc13f1415ebb53fac1131ae0bd333c5ee6021672d9718ea31a8aebd0da0072f25d87dba6fc90ffd598ed4da35e44c398c454307e8e33b8426143daec9f596836f97c8f74750e5975c64e2189f45def46b2a2b1247adc3652bf5c308055da9")]