On 2014-12-01 14:34, Alex Elsayed wrote:
Actually, I did the tests using the userspace interface to the kernel's Crypto API.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.
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