Re: general RC4 key searcher: optimisations anyone?

[Andy Brown <asb@nexor.co.uk>]

On Wed, 12 Jul 1995, Mike McNally wrote:

> Jonathan Shekter writes:
>  > >After all, the kind of really high powered systems that can make a
>  > >large dent in the key space are not running Windows NT.
>  > 
>  > 	Umm... ever hear of an Alpha?

When I stuck that comment in I had in mind the message that appeared here 
in the list from someone at maspar.com, where their machines make our 
workstations look rather pedestrian.  Agreed, though, Alpha's are nice 
(I'm typing this message on one).

> Also, I've been quite impressed with the Pentium times.  It must have
> something to do with the "friendliness" towards byte operations in the
> Intel architecture.

The Pentium's integer performance in general is very good, right up there 
with the more expensive Sparc according to the figures I saw in one of 
the linux newsgroups a while back.  Unfortunately the same cannot be said 
for the relative performance of its FPU, Intel needs to do a lot of work 
there to catch up.


- Andy

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