Re: RC4 [was: RE: Passport Passwords Stored in Plaintext]

2001-10-23 Thread Eric Young
Adam Shostack wrote: | RC4 is like a brick that can be used to build a house. I'd say that RC4 is like one of those cool, semi-opaque glass bricks. Considering that RSA Security changed their logo to a red 'brick' a while back (they called it a brick as part of the corporate PR around the

Re: Rijndael in Assembler for x86?

2001-09-19 Thread Eric Young
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because it is typically slower by many times than hand tuned assembler. On 14 Sep 2001, at 14:24, Ian Goldberg wrote: Are you sure? For general code, that certainly hasn't been true in a long time; optimizing