On Sun, 5 Nov 2006, Wayne Davison wrote: > Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2006 21:35:10 -0800 > From: Wayne Davison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: thomas david clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: rsync@lists.samba.org > Subject: Re: Assembly md4 algorithum. > > On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 03:28:52AM +0000, thomas david clarke wrote: > > Would the asm md4 implementation used by Shareaza (under the GNU GPL) > > be appropreate to use in order to accelerate rsync? > > Since that would appear to compile with masm, we'd need a version that > compiled with something more like gcc/gas. Or perhaps the md4core.S > file from the 1.5.12 release of Botan would be a better fit? It would > be interesting to be able to do a speed comparison to see if we could > lower the CPU use in any kind of a significant way. > > Something to keep in mind: older versions of rsync had bugs in the MD4 > handling, so a new implementation would need to either duplicate the old > bugs (based on the protocol_version) or rsync would have to drop support > for anything prior to protocol 27 (which was first supported in 2.6.0). Perhaps keep existing implementation and use it for old protocol; for new protocol version use new source, standard MD4 compatible, either C or assembly.
> > ..wayne.. > Best regards, Wojtek -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
