From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Mar 1 21:41:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA22706 for chat-outgoing; Sat, 1 Mar 1997 21:41:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from narcissus.ml.org (root@brosenga.Pitzer.edu [134.173.120.201]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA22700 for ; Sat, 1 Mar 1997 21:41:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (ben@localhost) by narcissus.ml.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA01329; Sat, 1 Mar 1997 21:40:40 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 21:40:40 -0800 (PST) From: Snob Art Genre To: Amancio Hasty cc: Brian Tao , "John S. Dyson" , FREEBSD-CHAT-L Subject: Re: RSA 56-bit key challenge In-Reply-To: <199703020335.TAA00350@rah.star-gate.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, Amancio Hasty wrote: > > 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)... ?? Yeah. At least, I *think* it's 60 ns RAM -- I bought the box last August, and it's a Micron, it's probably 60 ns, don't you think? So how do I join? > 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" > > > > > Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems."