Pádraig Brady <p...@draigbrady.com> skribis: > 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? Nettle has fine-tuned assembly implementations of various hash functions (e.g., <http://git.lysator.liu.se/nettle/nettle/trees/master/x86_64>); libgcrypt seems to have fewer of them currently (see <http://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=libgcrypt.git;a=tree;f=cipher;hb=refs/heads/master>.) It would be ideal if Coreutils could push these GNU packages. Thanks, Ludo’.
