On 06/11/2014 12:25 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > 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). >
I believe I used Skein-256, but I'd have to dig to find it again. -hpa -- 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/