Robbins, Aharon wrote: > http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/improving-the-performance-of-the-secure-hash-algorithm-1/?cid=sw:dslnews5149
Thanks for the link. Improving the performance of coreutils' SHA* programs has been discussed off and on for some time. Notably, openssl's equivalents outperform those in coreutils, but portability counts, too, which means integrating an assembly-based solution takes time.
