Subject: Re: Damn slow RSA_generate_key
To: Chris Rupnik <crupnik@videotron.ca>
From: Audun Arnesen Nordal <audun@stud.cs.uit.no>
List: port-sparc
Date: 01/30/2003 16:47:34
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Chris Rupnik wrote:

> Hi
>  Is it really GCC or more likely a combination of this as well?
> 
> http://n0cgi.distributed.net/faq/cache/55.html

I wouldn't think so. RC5 can run faster on CISC-cpus that has built-in
rotate instructions, but RSA is just huge prime arithmetics which I guess
should perform more or less equally on any architecture.

Regards


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Audun Nordal