Re: [PATCH] use libcrypto routines in gnulib

[Pádraig Brady]

On 12/16/2013 09:27 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:
> 
>> Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> skribis:
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>>> The speed of md5 and sha* hashes has lagged a bit in gnulib.
>>> So to address that and to take advantage of the architecture
>>> specific assembly used in libcrypto, the attached gnulib patch
>>> allows projects to configure --with-openssl to use that if
>>> available or fall back to the existing internal routines.
>>
>> Any idea how libcrypto compares to what libgcrypt and Nettle provide?
> 
> More on this topic (from the libgcrypt 1.6 announcement):
> 
>   http://blog.gnupg.org/20131215-gcrypt-bench.html

Thanks for the info.
A good improvement.
Pity openssl wasn't looped into the hash benchmarks

Pádraig.