Re: Announce loop-AES-v3.0b file/swap crypto package

From: Dan Hollis
Date: Tue Jan 18 2005 - 19:21:52 EST


On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Venkat Manakkal wrote:
> As for cryptoloop, I'm sorry, I cannot say the same. The password hashing
> system being changed in the past year, poor stability and machine lockups are
> what I have noticed, besides there is nothing like the readme here:

cryptoloop is also unusably slow, even on my x86_64 machines...

at the very least someone should merge in the assembler loop-aes routines.
all other architectural arguments/whining aside, is there any good reason
not to do this?

-Dan

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