From: Julian Assange <proff@suburbia.net>
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 20:57:56 +0800
To: perry@piermont.com
Subject: Re: Brute Force DES
In-Reply-To: <199607231338.JAA15819@jekyll.piermont.com>
Message-ID: <199607231619.CAA18593@suburbia.net>
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> 
> "Peter Trei" writes:
> > The fastest general purpose, freely available des implementation I'm
> > aware of is libdes. by Eric Young. With this, I can do a set_key in 
> > 15.8 us, and an ecb_encrypt in 95 us/block. That adds up to 
> > about 9,000 keytests/sec (this is on a 90 MHz P5, running NT).
> 
> I'll point out that like most DES implementations, Eric's tries to
> spend a lot of time in key setup to save time later on in
> encryption/decryption. This tradeoff would probably be very different
> if you didn't plan on trying more than one or two blocks of decryption
> after getting a key.
> 
> Perry

90 us is several times longer than 15.


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