[Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#517645: Re-enable the x86_64 asm version of RC4 in OpenSSL

Marc Bevand m.bevand at gmail.com
Sun Mar 1 06:28:03 UTC 2009


Package: libssl0.9.8
Version: 0.9.8g-15

To resolve bug #334501 the optimized x86_64 asm version of RC4 has
been disabled, to fall back on the (slow) C version. As someone who
contributed to the x64_64 asm implementation of RC4, I believe this
4-year old SIGSEGV in ssh was caused by a compiler bug. Would you
consider re-enabling the asm version ? It is about 3x faster than the
C version on today's processors.

-marc





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