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From: Eric Cooper <ecc@cmu.edu>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Hardening [Perl's] hash function further
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 17:39:32 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131119223932.GH10034@cooper-siegel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <528BE3C3.2050304@gmail.com>

On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 11:18:43PM +0100, Nicolas Braud-Santoni wrote:
> I am not aware of instruction sets dedicated to speeding up hash
> functions (unlike encryption with AES, for instance).

But many systems-on-chips have crypto engines that can be used for
this purpose. See
    http://www.marvell.com/application-processors/armada-500/
to cite just one example.

-- 
Eric Cooper             e c c @ c m u . e d u

  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-19 22:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-18 20:44 Richard W.M. Jones
2013-11-19  0:08 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2013-11-19  7:53   ` David MENTRE
2013-11-19  8:50     ` Richard W.M. Jones
2013-11-19  9:14     ` Gabriel Scherer
2013-11-19 11:19       ` Dario Teixeira
2013-11-19 12:55         ` rixed
2013-11-19 22:18           ` Nicolas Braud-Santoni
2013-11-19 22:39             ` Eric Cooper [this message]
2013-11-19 22:55               ` Nicolas Braud-Santoni
2013-11-25 13:46                 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2013-11-19 22:31         ` Nicolas Braud-Santoni
2013-11-20 18:56         ` Florian Weimer
2013-11-20 21:47           ` Gerd Stolpmann
2013-11-25 13:51             ` Goswin von Brederlow
2013-11-25 14:43               ` Yaron Minsky
2013-11-19 22:15     ` Nicolas Braud-Santoni
2013-11-25 13:38   ` Goswin von Brederlow

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