Re: Recruiting machines for DES key recovery

There are thousands of Amigas out there, and they're powerful enough to do video production on... a C port with assembler optimizations shouldn't be more painful than one for a PC or Mac. Why not put some of them to use (especially if they're unused) key cracking?
[Disclaimer: I have no first hand experience with programming Amigas though... would they be too slow?]
I can`t do the port myself unless the PC code is going to be in C as I don`t write amiga assembler anymore (not for about 2 years). As for the speed I have an A4000/030 here which is about equivalent to a 486 dx 33 or similar and the average amiga, an A1200 is about the same as a 486 sx 25 I really don`t think a port is worth doing though because there are few amiga owners who use the internet extensively because the TCP/IP stack (amitcp) for the amiga is a load of crap. Datacomms Technologies web authoring and data security Paul Bradley, Paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk Paul@crypto.uk.eu.org, Paul@cryptography.uk.eu.org Http://www.cryptography.home.ml.org/ Email for PGP public key, ID: 5BBFAEB1 "Don`t forget to mount a scratch monkey"
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