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Subject: Re: RSA 56-bit key challenge 
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Yeap,

If the PC has fast EDO or SDRAM it should be possible. I am pretty sure
that the processor is starving for memory bandwith.

Now a quad PPro equip with fast SDRAM will be something wild to watch 8)




Again, anyone out there with a  fast PPRO with fast EDO (60 ns or better)... ??

	Cheers,
	Amancio

>From The Desk Of Brian Tao :
> On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, Amancio Hasty wrote:
> >
> > I too will be running my client at nights . Right now I am tweaking my box 
8)
> > rc5-56-client: Performance testing with 1000000 crypts
> > rc5-56-client: Complete in 2.838 seconds. (352389.25 keys/sec)
> 
>     Hmmmm... think it would be possible to squeeze 400000 keys/sec out
> of an Intel CPU?  :)
> --
> Brian Tao (BT300, taob@risc.org)
> "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"
>