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- From: borasky@ogicse.ogi.edu (M. Edward Borasky)
- Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks
- Subject: Re: rhosettastone anyone?
- Message-ID: <40361@ogicse.ogi.edu>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 19:56:33 GMT
- Article-I.D.: ogicse.40361
- References: <1992Jul20.220136.25192@gateway.novell.com>
- Organization: Oregon Graduate Institute (formerly OGC), Beaverton, OR
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- In article <1992Jul20.220136.25192@gateway.novell.com> bsparks@npd.Novell.COM (Bryan Sparks) writes:
- >I propose the development of a benchmark program in C to measure the speed
- >of a system in performing *cryptographic* operations. An appropriate name
- >for this benchmark is the *rhosettastone*.
- > .....
- >Since there are export and
- >patent restrictions that control the use of distribution of DES, RSA, MDx,
- >etc., the source for these algorithms cannot be included in the benchmark
- >if the program is to be widely distributed.
-
- What you should do is code up some multi-word integer multiply and divide/GCD
- algorithms. See Knuth, "The Art of Computer Programming", volume 2. You
- might also track down the Convex vectorized version of Buchberger's Grobner
- Basis code. I think it may be in FORTRAN, but it's an easy translation to "C".
- I've forgotten the name of the Convex person who did the benchmark. The
- original is in TOMS; Convex vectorized it.
-