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RE: notes from developer's portion of IETF meeting



On Wed, 23 Apr 1997, Hilarie Orman wrote:

> > Table 18.2 in Applied Cryptography, Second Edition, says that MD5 will
> > do 174 Mbytes a second on a 33MHz 486SX...
> 
> Ridiculous by a factor of 100.  Note the spelling of snefru for an
> indication of the dedication to accuracy in that table.

The column mislabeled Encryption Speed is in KB/sec.

Norm


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