[39737] in Cypherpunks
Re: (none)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Young)
Thu Sep 21 03:12:30 1995
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 17:05:27 +1000 (EST)
From: Eric Young <eay@mincom.oz.au>
To: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
Cc: Phil Karlton <karlton@ghoti.mcom.com>, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199509210627.XAA14935@blob.best.net>
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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