Mikael> sheesh...this is prety bad concidering a P200 on Win95 can do
Mikael> this in 6 seconds....I figured a Digital AlphaStation 300
Mikael> would work faster....
Keep in mind that the Intel clients have been hand-optimizied, and are
in assembler. If you have sufficient familiarity with the Alpha
processor that you could write a fast client (i.e., in assembly, and
optimized to take advantages of the chip's features), we'd love to
hear about it.
The Alpha (and other 64-bit processors) have an especially interesting
ability, in taking a different approach altogether from the 32-bit
processors, which could yield significant speed increases. Biham
discussed 64-bit implementations of DES in software that are
super-fast...
-- Matt Curtin Chief Scientist Megasoft, Inc. cmcurtin@research.megasoft.com http://www.research.megasoft.com/people/cmcurtin/ I speak only for myself Death to small keys. Crack DES NOW! http://www.frii.com/~rcv/deschall.htm