Alex Elsayed wrote: > * He was comparing CRC32 (a 32-bit non-cryptographic hash, *via the Crypto > API*) against SHA-1 (a 128-bit cryptographic hash, via the Crypto API), > and SHA-1 _still_ won. CRC32 tends to beat the pants off 128-bit non- > cryptographic hashes simply because those require multiple registers to > store the state if nothing else; which makes this a rather strong argument > that _hardware matters a heck of a lot_, quite possibly _more_ than the > algorithm.
Ah, correction - it seems he was comparing his own implementations, rather than the Crypto API ones - but the points still hold, seeing as the Crypto API does provide both algorithms. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
