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Re: [openpgp] SHA-x performance (was: SHA3 algorithm ids)

Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> Tue, 11 August 2015 17:45 UTC

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Subject: Re: [openpgp] SHA-x performance (was: SHA3 algorithm ids)
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On Tue 2015-08-11 13:29:39 -0400, Werner Koch wrote:

> FWIW, Libgcrypt on an i5-2410M (64 bit) gives this:

I'm assuming this is done over large inputs KiB or MiB of data into each
hash -- is that right?  can you indicate what commands you ran to
generate these figures?

>                 |  nanosecs/byte   mebibytes/sec   cycles/byte

Thank you for the precise and clear units!  that's (sadly) pretty rare
to see in performance test reports, but it's very helpful.

    --dkg

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