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Re: crypto on MMX
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Thu Feb 26 13:07:32 1998
To: Mike Rosing <cryptech@Mcs.Net>
cc: cryptography@c2.net
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 26 Feb 1998 09:25:51 CST."
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Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 12:00:20 -0500
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Mike Rosing writes:
> On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Phil Karn wrote:
> > Has anyone looked at the utility of the Intel MMX instruction set for
> > fast encryption implementations? Has anyone written code?
>
> Why such expensive processors? Lots of cheap processors will give you
> more bang for the buck.
Not if you are trying to get your desktop to run SSH or the like more
quickly. Writing fast crypto code has uses other than cracking.
Perry
