| However! I totally disagree with the final conclusion you make.
| [...]
| In other words RC4 is just too special, too memory-bound and too | cache-trashing to be specific, to project its performance improvement | coefficient on other algorithms.
My conclusion is not supposed to be a rational technical conclusion, it is more a personal opinion (I am working on other amd64 papers).
Well, it might be just me, but if it's not about a rational conclusion, then it's not a "paper," rather an "essay":-) But never mind! What I wanted to point out is that if it means that you plan to submit more AMD64 code to OpenSSL, then keep in mind that it's expected to be at the very least position independent and preferably support both Win64 and Linux ABIs and assemblers (see crypto/rc4/asm/rc4-amd64.pl for an example). A.
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