2-MAY-2004
OK, nothing much has happened for a while. The "real world" has not been kind
workload-wise. However, there's a few new ciphers in there now, and there's a
couple more things that should appear in about a weeks time (assuming nothing
else big comes up, which is being rather hopeful ...). Also, I've updated the
scoring page. Nearly every cipher submitted required a
substantial amount of time to get it to fit into the sandbox framework, time
which I just don't have at the moment. So if you're planning on submitting a
cipher, please read it and format your code accordingly so I don't have to tell
you that you've scored zero.
24-JAN-2004
It is now possible for people to edit the details on ciphers that they have
submitted. If you have a cipher to your name, then create an account and email
me to have control of your cipher activated. It's a very basic interface, but
it's a step in the direction of having automatic cipher submission. Uploading
files is not yet available, and uploading is not an active area, as in most
cases I'd like to know when something changes in the implementation of the
cipher!
Also added is a table that lists the performance of the submitted ciphers.
There's quite a spread in the speeds at the moment, with the top cipher pulling
off nearly 120mbytes/sec, and the slowest only managing 1.82 mbytes/sec. Of
course, this is all on an x86-32 machine, and there is already one cipher in
there that will run a *lot* better on 64-bit machines.
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