Re: [rc4-amd64] RC4 optimized for AMD64

[James Morris]

On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Marc Bevand wrote:

> I have just published a small paper about optimizing RC4 for
> AMD64 (x86-64). A working implementation is also provided:
> 
>   http://epita.fr/~bevand_m/papers/rc4-amd64.html
> 
> Kernel people may be interested given the fact that Linux
> already implements RC4.

Only problem is that the setkey code is released under a GPL incompatible
license.  Although it's probably not difficult to make the kernel's
existing C setkey code to work with the new asm code.


- James
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James Morris
<jmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>



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