From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Feb 28 17:23:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA02157 for chat-outgoing; Fri, 28 Feb 1997 17:23:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [204.188.121.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA02150 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 1997 17:23:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA12036; Fri, 28 Feb 1997 17:23:30 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199703010123.RAA12036@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: Brian Tao cc: FREEBSD-CHAT-L Subject: Re: RSA 56-bit key challenge In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 27 Feb 1997 20:05:14 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 17:23:30 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I ran this test on my PPRO 200Mhz 3.0-current as of a couple of weeks ago. Got this : {hasty} ./rc5-client-freebsd -m rc5-56-client: Performance testing with 1000000 crypts rc5-56-client: Complete in 3.347 seconds. (298812.07 keys/sec) The result looks to fast for me 8) So the next question am I am running the reference benchmark correctly? Tnks, Amancio >From The Desk Of Brian Tao : > Anyone else dedicating spare cycles (or whole machines) to this > effort? I've got a 200-MHz Pentium cranking out just over 148000 keys > per second, which is pretty fast compared to numbers posted for > various Suns, SGI's and RS/6000's (see http://www.vex.net/~rasmus/rsa/ > for our particular team effort). Linux systems seem to be 15% to 30% > faster on similar hardware though. :( Does anyone have numbers for a > dual-CPU system or a fast PPro system? > > http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/97challenge/ > http://zero.genx.net/ > > -- > Brian Tao (BT300, taob@risc.org) > "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't" >