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Message-ID: <20120626030446.GA12132@openwall.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 07:04:46 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: md5cryptsse()'s uses of length[]

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:00:20PM -0500, jfoug wrote:
> >From: Solar Designer [mailto:solar@...nwall.com]
> >In sse-intrinsics.c: md5cryptsse(), there's a loop that assigns password
> >lengths to length[i], then uses length[i] many times.  Wouldn't it be
> >better to use an int variable local to that loop instead, and only at
> >the end of each loop iteration store the value into length[i]?
> 
> Solar, that was not my code, so I am not sure of the reasons behind how it
> was done.

Oh, it was probably Simon's.  Sorry for misaddressing.

Alexander

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