From: lefty@apple.com (Lefty)
Subject: Re: freely distributable public key cryptography c++ code:  where?
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In article <gradyC5wGrz.CvC@netcom.com>, grady@netcom.com (1016/2EF221)
wrote:
> 
> Victor Iseli (victori@xetron.com) wrote:
> : 
> : 
> : "Numerical Recipes in C"..Fortran..Pascal  has a nice section on
> : encryption and decryption based on the DES algorithm.  There is
> : also source code provided (I think some versions of this book are 
> : distributed with the source code on disk; the source code can
> : also be ordered from the publisher).
> : 
> : --Victor Iseli
> : victori@xetron.com
> 
> Yes I benchmarked the DES implementation in the Recipes in C
> book.. it is about 1 1/2 orders of magnitude SLOWER than the
> Outerbridge/Karn/Gillogly/et al implementation.
> 
> It may be instructional, but it isn't very fast.

It has also apparently been excised from the second edition.

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