inefficient Des3DkCrypto/DigestMD5Base.setParityBit()

[Christian Thalinger]

On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 15:18 +0000, Alan Bateman wrote:
> 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.

Ohh, good point, thanks.  I thought everything related to the core
library should be posted here.  I will forward it to the security-dev
list.

-- Christian