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Date:      Sat, 1 Mar 1997 20:01:09 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
To:        taob@risc.org (Brian Tao)
Cc:        jehamby@lightside.com, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RSA 56-bit key challenge
Message-ID:  <199703020401.UAA19241@freefall.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970301223528.439D-100000@alpha.risc.org> from "Brian Tao" at Mar 1, 97 10:40:18 pm

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Brian Tao wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, Jake Hamby wrote:
> > 
> > If somebody can point me at the source, I'll gladly build a
> > Solaris/x86 binary (with Pentium or PPro optimizations if you like
> > :-).
> 
>     You can e-mail rc5-56@genx.net and request that a Solaris x86
> binary be made available (or offer your services in maintaining one
> for them).  The only source I can find is significantly slower than
> the binaries they provide, but you can try it anyway:
> 
> http://www.texas.net/rc5/rc5-client-2.01.tar.gz

	what have they dont to speed up the FreeBSD
	binary?   tried compiling my own but it signifcantly slower ;(

./rc5-client -m
rc5-56-client: Performance testing with 1000000 crypts
rc5-56-client: Complete in 11.810 seconds. (84670.57 keys/sec)

./rc5-client-freebsd -m
rc5-56-client: Performance testing with 1000000 crypts
rc5-56-client: Complete in 10.903 seconds. (91715.20 keys/sec)

	cpu is an amd5x86-133
jmb



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