On 06/11/2014 01:41 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > 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 >
Sadly I can't find the tree, but I'm 94% sure it was Skein-256 (specifically the SHA3-256 candidate parameter set.) -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/