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Re: MAC speeds
Yes it can be made faster.
See http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~bosselae/fast.html
--Bart
On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Bill Manning wrote:
> %
> % Tero Kivinen reports a time of 154000 cycles (308 microseconds) for
> % HMAC-MD5 on 2048 bytes on a 500MHz Alpha.
> %
> % That's slower than today's fast ciphers, notably the AES candidates,
> % which are below 40 cycles/byte. Some people seem to be making decisions
> % on this basis.
> %
> % But there are faster implementations of MD5. Furthermore, there are
> % much faster MACs.
> ...
> % ---Dan
>
> I'm not sure that MD5 can be made too much faster.
> see:
>
> http://www.isi.edu/~touch/pubs/sigcomm95.html
>
> --bill
>
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