D'OH.

java.security.MessageDigest, not javax.crypto.Mac.

Can somebody explain what the difference is between the two?

On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 02:45:58AM +0100, Toad wrote:
> It would appear that javax.crypto is not compatible with our
> implementation. We implement FIPS 180-1. Sun implements RFC 2104.
> Experimentally, their implementation does not produce the expected
> results in the code, whereas ours does. Standards are great, there are
> so many to choose from :(
> 
> 
> On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 01:39:27AM +0100, Toad wrote:
> > It turns out that Sun JDK 1.4 implements SHA-1 natively.
> > 
> > Benchmarks on my local machine (XP 1700+):
> > 
> > Sun javax.crypto, default provider for HmacSHA1:
> > 
> > SHA update 100000 times for the same data block of size 4096 bytes:
> > 54479ms [7518493bytes/second, 1ms/update]
> > SHA update 1000 times for different data blocks of size 4096 bytes:
> > 574ms [7135888bytes/second, 1ms/update]
> > 
> > freenet.crypt:
> > 
> > SHA update 100000 times for the same data block of size 4096 bytes:
> > 144562ms [2833386bytes/second, 0ms/update] 
> > SHA update 1000 times for different data blocks of size 4096 bytes:
> > 1388ms [2951008bytes/second, 0ms/update]
> > 
> > Looking good, what remains:
> > 
> > * Implement a compatibility layer (should be trivial)
> > * Run our SHA1 tests to verify that they interpret the standard the same
> >   way as we do.
> > 
> > According to 
> > http://194.236.28.174/freenetstuff/6037/8kQPH_10_minutes/getCurrentTreadCPUTime/
> > 
> > SHA1 makes up a significant fraction of our CPU usage. It is also the
> > limiting factor in many user visible operations. I am not sure whether
> > we can do the same thing for DLES... have a look at
> > 
> > http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/docs/guide/security/jce/JCERefGuide.html
> > 
> > 
> 
> 


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