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Date:      Sat, 01 Mar 1997 19:35:29 -0800
From:      Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
To:        Brian Tao <taob@risc.org>
Cc:        "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>, FREEBSD-CHAT-L <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: RSA 56-bit key challenge 
Message-ID:  <199703020335.TAA00350@rah.star-gate.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 01 Mar 1997 22:29:25 EST." <Pine.BSF.3.95.970301222850.439C-100000@alpha.risc.org> 

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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"
> 





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