On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 09:48:31AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > While talking about performance, I did a quick prototype of random using > Skein instead of SHA-1, and it was measurably faster, in part because > Skein produces more output per hash.
Which Skein parameters did you use, and how much stack space was required for it? Skein-512 is described as needing 200 bytes of state, IIRC (which I assume most of which comes from Threefish key schedule). - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/