john-users - Re: quite fast MD5 hashing implementation

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Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 01:00:53 +0300
From: "Marti Raudsepp" <marti@...fo.org>
To: john-users <john-users@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: quite fast MD5 hashing implementation

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 4:22 PM, Simon Marechal <simon@...quise.net> wrote:
> http://3.14.by/en/md5
>
> It is a lot faster than everything I previously saw. I suppose he achieves
> this speed by:
> * reversing the last round
> * working a lot on instruction/register scheduling

Probably also taking advantage of the 8 extra XMM registers in 64-bit mode.

Marti

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