> ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Zooko O'Whielacronx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ... > The AES competition resulted in a block cipher that was faster as > well as safer than the previous standards. I hope that the next > generation of hash functions achieve something similar, because for > my use cases speed in a hash function is more important than speed > in encryption. >
I believe that this will be more and more the case. Hashes will probably become slower relative to ciphers. CPUs are becoming multi-core and data pipelining from RAM into a CPU on-chip cache is now common. Both of these semiconductor trends will make existing hashes become bottlenecks and will make it harder to design a fast new hash. - Alex --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]