Re: nse crypto

[Toni Ruottu <toni.ruottu () iki fi>]

ipOps.ip_to_bin does not work because it converts the address to a
string of ascii characters 0 and 1, while I need to convert the
address to an actual binary string. I wonder, if I could use bin
library to convert a string of 0 and 1 to a binary string.

On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 4:09 AM, David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 05:56:30PM +0200, Toni Ruottu wrote:
> > Here is a new version that uses the brute library. I did not notice
> > any speed ups, but using the library seems a good idea anyway, as it
> > makes this work similarly to other scripts.
>
> Awesome, good work. I've committed it. By the way, Toni, the style of
> this script is looking really good.
>
> You might be able to replace the ip6tobin function with the standard
> function ipOps.ip_to_bin.
>
> I don't understand why switching to the brute library doesn't speed it
> up. Using multiple threads should allow costly operations like network
> roundtrips to happen in parallel. At first I thought it might be the key
> derivation function, involving 1,000 rounds of SHA-256, but it hardly
> affects the CPU in my quick test.
> take close to a second.
>
> David Fifield
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