l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis: > 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?
More on this topic (from the libgcrypt 1.6 announcement): http://blog.gnupg.org/20131215-gcrypt-bench.html Thanks, Ludo’.