Bug#895857: coreutils: sha1sum and other hashing tools are compiled without libcrypto support

2019-02-09 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 08/02/19 07:12, Matteo Croce wrote: > Hi, > > latest gnulib have support for sendfile and AF_ALG, the kernel crypto > framework, if compiled with --with-linux-crypto. > This allows to have very fast hashing algorythms but without the > libcrypto dependency, > > coreutils$ ./configure

Bug#895857: coreutils: sha1sum and other hashing tools are compiled without libcrypto support

2019-02-08 Thread Matteo Croce
Hi, latest gnulib have support for sendfile and AF_ALG, the kernel crypto framework, if compiled with --with-linux-crypto. This allows to have very fast hashing algorythms but without the libcrypto dependency, coreutils$ ./configure --with-linux-crypto [...] checking whether linux/if_alg.h has

Bug#895857: coreutils: sha1sum and other hashing tools are compiled without libcrypto support

2018-04-16 Thread Matteo Croce
Package: coreutils Version: 8.26-3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, the sha{1,224,256,384,512}sum tools included in the coreutils package can be compiled with libcrypto support. At the expense of a runtime dependency, the speed gain of the hash calculation is quite noticeable under amd64: