Re: [PATCH] use libcrypto routines in gnulib

[Ludovic Courtès]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:

> 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?

More on this topic (from the libgcrypt 1.6 announcement):

  http://blog.gnupg.org/20131215-gcrypt-bench.html

Thanks,
Ludo’.