From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 16:15:53 +0800
To: Akshay Vashist <cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Subject: Re: Cryptographic Implementations
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At 01:03 PM 2/18/98 +0530, Akshay Vashist wrote:
>Hi,
>   Could somebody point me to some of the software implementations
>of the cryptographic algorithms ( RSA , DES ,3DES ) .Actually,
>Iam interested in evaluating their performance on firewalls etc.,
>so if there are sites, that contain their performance metrics/data
>and the time it takes to break them ( approximately , on an average
>m/c say sun ultra sparc ), please  do mail  me.Any help is welcome.

There are a lot of good crypto web and ftp sites.
Look at ftp.ox.ac.uk and ftp.funet.fi .
Look at Ron Rivest's pages (AltaVista knows where they are.)


				Thanks! 
					Bill
Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com
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