inefficient Des3DkCrypto/DigestMD5Base.setParityBit()

[Alan Bateman]

Christian Thalinger wrote:
> Hi!
>
> While looking at the bitCount() thing I mentioned in the other thread, I
> noticed that Des3DkCrypto and DigestMD5Base are using a very inefficient
> implementation of setParityBit().  The one from DESKeyGenerator is much
> better and uses Integer.bitCount(), which could benefit from a
> population-count intrinsic.
>
> Should I file a CR or even propose a patch?
>
> -- Christian
>   
I don't know if the security folks on this mailing list so it might be 
better to send it to security-dev.

-Alan.