From: m5@dev.tivoli.com (Mike McNally)
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 95 10:53:54 PDT
To: "Jonathan Shekter" <jshekter@alias.com>
Subject: Re: general RC4 key searcher: optimisations anyone?
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Jonathan Shekter writes:
 > >After all, the kind of really high powered systems that can make a
 > >large dent in the key space are not running Windows NT.
 > 
 > 	Umm... ever hear of an Alpha?

Also, I've been quite impressed with the Pentium times.  It must have
something to do with the "friendliness" towards byte operations in the
Intel architecture.


(Also also, I should note that one can only have sympathy for anybody
trying to run NT on anything *but* a high-powered system :-)

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