On 12/16/2013 09:27 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > 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 for the info. A good improvement. Pity openssl wasn't looped into the hash benchmarks Pádraig.
