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Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 04:38:25 +0100
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: SSE/intrinsics for sapB/sapG [was: john-users]

On 12/31/2011 03:37 AM, magnum wrote:
> And how much would it take to introduce a way to do more 64-byte limbs,
> for 128+ bytes of data?

It turns out this is already supported. But I do not really understand 
how it can tell I'm doing full 64-byte blocks or not? I just fill them 
and postpone setting the length until the last (shorter) block.

> Jim, Simon, how would I do a crypt of between 56 and 63 bytes? Is
> this not possible? Can we actually only do 0-55 *or* 64-119 bytes?

This question remains, and it's a blocker for sapG intrinsics. Is there 
a way?

magnum

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