Am 26.03.2013 14:26 schrieb "Ludo Brands" <ludo.bra...@free.fr>: > > On 03/26/2013 10:40 AM, Sven Barth wrote: > > Am 26.03.2013 06:53, schrieb Anthony Walter: > > >> I wasn't asking you to stop your work, rather I was attempting to > >> share insights and my opinions with the group. My point in the > >> previous message was that many times it make sense to reuse something > >> which works, and possibly part of the operating system, rather than > >> recreating that which already exists. > > We already have a "hash" package and I'm all for improving/extending it. > > This can prove especially useful for platforms where OpenSSL is not > > supported (think the embedded targets or similar here). Also I'm a big > > fan of "as less non-Pascal dependencies as possible" :) > > > > Another advantage of OpenSSL is performance. Especially on x64 where > OpenSSL is an order of magnitude faster than fe. the synapse sha1 > implementation. It uses assembly to optimize code. I doubt that will > ever be done in a FPC library.
If someone provides a patch to additionally add assembly versions to cryptographic algorithms I doubt that we'll turn them down... Regards, Sven
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