[issue47124] explore hashlib use of the Apple CryptoKit macOS

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[issue47124] explore hashlib use of the Apple CryptoKit macOS

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: SecDigestTransformCreate() is probably a relevant API to look into, this seems to be supported from 10.7 until now. A major disadvantage for us of this API is that it is a CoreFoundation API and because of that is problematic in pre-forking scenario's

[issue47124] explore hashlib use of the Apple CryptoKit macOS

Gregory P. Smith added the comment: I only pointed to that API after a brief search without looking at details (Swift? oops!). If there is one available from C that'd also make sense to consider. The only things I expect, relevant to hashlib, that would be accelerated by OS native APIs

[issue47124] explore hashlib use of the Apple CryptoKit macOS

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: A "problem" with CryptoKit is that it is a swift-only framework, which makes using those APIs harder from C code (not impossible). The older Security framework also contains crypto APIs, but seems to have less support for modern algorithms (e.g. no support

[issue47124] explore hashlib use of the Apple CryptoKit macOS

New submission from Gregory P. Smith : https://developer.apple.com/documentation/cryptokit/ in macOS 10.15+ This is a common place for platform specific hardware acceleration to be exposed to the user (especially on SoCs which often have non-standard hardware - Like Apples... which is