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Re: Recruiting machines for DES key recovery
> There are thousands of Amigas out there, and they're powerful enough
> to do video production on... a C port with assembler optimizations
> shouldn't be more painful than one for a PC or Mac. Why not put some
> of them to use (especially if they're unused) key cracking?
>
> [Disclaimer: I have no first hand experience with programming Amigas
> though... would they be too slow?]
I can`t do the port myself unless the PC code is going to be in C as
I don`t write amiga assembler anymore (not for about 2 years).
As for the speed I have an A4000/030 here which is about equivalent
to a 486 dx 33 or similar and the average amiga, an A1200 is about
the same as a 486 sx 25
I really don`t think a port is worth doing though because there are
few amiga owners who use the internet extensively because the TCP/IP
stack (amitcp) for the amiga is a load of crap.
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