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To: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert)
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Subject: Re: RSA 56-bit key challenge 
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Date: Sun, 02 Mar 1997 06:47:43 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> For the current client, they're available. For the next one, that would be

Yeah, I actually fetched that and built it with various optimization
flags to no avail - couldn't get more than 240K keys/sec or so out of
it.  Either gcc generates really inefficient code, the lack of
hand-optimized ALPHA assembly really penalizes this case or there's
some special trick to this that I don't know about. I truly did play
with just about every type of optimization flag for gcc and they
actually had very little overall effect.  Since I couldn't reach
the server anyway, and 240K/sec is lousy, I just ditched the idea
of signing it up for this contest. :)

					Jordan