[PATCH] Add AMD64 assembly implementation for arcfour

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Fri Dec 20 15:33:24 CET 2013


On Fri, 20 Dec 2013 15:05, jussi.kivilinna at iki.fi said:

> Patch adds Marc Bevand's public-domain AMD64 assembly implementation of RC4 to
> libgcrypt. Original implementation is at:
>   http://www.zorinaq.com/papers/rc4-amd64.html

Do we really want to improve a broken cipher?  But well, if you like it.
But please no NEWS entry - it might give users a bad hint to use it.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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