> And the answer I have
> is that the hashing normally is faster via soft lib than an
> engine/hardware.

Well, single block hashing is commonly faster in software, but hardware
should beat it on multi-block operations. In other words one should aim
for "synergetic" implementation engaging hardware only when it's
advantageous. A.
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