From: Eric Young <eay@mincom.oz.au>
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 95 00:10:32 PDT
To: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
Subject: Re: (none)
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On Wed, 20 Sep 1995, James A. Donald wrote:
> However the algorithm I described simply used less computation, but the
> overhead of continually doing MD5 is probably modest. 

On a 486DX50 Solaris 2.4 I can do about 40,000 md5's per second.
(if input is < 56 bytes and contiguious).

With an mixing algorithm this fast, you could use it once per 
byte and still have an acceptable RNG.
It is definitly my hash function of choice :-).

eric
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