Re: [PATCH] use libcrypto routines in gnulib

[Ludovic Courtès]

Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> 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?

Nettle has fine-tuned assembly implementations of various hash functions
(e.g., <http://git.lysator.liu.se/nettle/nettle/trees/master/x86_64>);
libgcrypt seems to have fewer of them currently (see
<http://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=libgcrypt.git;a=tree;f=cipher;hb=refs/heads/master>.)

It would be ideal if Coreutils could push these GNU packages.

Thanks,
Ludo’.