Re: Probable OT: rc5 on openbsd

["J.C.Roberts" <unknown@abac.com>]

On Fri, 9 May 2003 02:52:59 +0200, you wrote:

>On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 07:21:47PM -0300, Gustavo Vieira Gonalves Coelho Rios wrote:
>> Does anybody known about a rc5 cbc implementation working on OBSD ?
>
>You can download and compile openssl from www.openssl.org.
>In OpenBSD, a number of ciphers (IDEA, RC5) are removed 
>from openssl, presumably because of obnoxious patents. 
>
>'/usr/local/bin/openssl speed rc5-cbc' will do.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Matthias

Portions of OpenSSL contain additional chunks of optimized assembly code
which are not used by default during the normal C compilation. On some
things, using the optimized assembly code offers a significant boost to
the over all speed. I'm not sure if such assembly code is available for
rc5 but it's still worth knowing about.

JCR