Re: [RFC PATCH 09/12] Add a base implementation of SHA-256 support

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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 09/12] Add a base implementation of SHA-256 support
From: Derrick Stolee <stolee@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2018 08:54:56 -0400
In-reply-to: <20180829005857.980820-10-sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
References: <20180829005857.980820-1-sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> <20180829005857.980820-10-sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
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On 8/28/2018 8:58 PM, brian m. carlson wrote:

SHA-256 is somewhat slower to compute than SHA-1 in software.  However,
since our default SHA-1 implementation is collision-detecting, a
reasonable cryptographic library implementation of SHA-256 will actually
be faster than SHA-256.


Nit: do you mean "faster than SHA-1DC"?

References:
- [RFC PATCH 00/12] Base SHA-256 algorithm implementation
  - From: brian m. carlson
- [RFC PATCH 09/12] Add a base implementation of SHA-256 support
  - From: brian m. carlson

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