From: Nicolas Braud-Santoni <nicolas.braudsantoni@gmail.com>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Hardening [Perl's] hash function further
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 23:18:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <528BE3C3.2050304@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131119125519.GA18044@ccellier.rd.securactive.lan>
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On 19/11/2013 13:55, rixed@happyleptic.org wrote:
> -[ Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 03:19:13AM -0800, Dario Teixeira ]----
>> To complicate matters further, on some architectures but not on others
>> you may now or in the future have silicon that speeds up the calculation
>> of cryptographic hash functions...
> To complicate matters even further, many users concerned about security
> will refuse to rely on a hardware blackbox implementation anyway. ;-)
I am not aware of instruction sets dedicated to speeding up hash
functions (unlike encryption with AES, for instance).
However, vectorization can definitely help.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-19 22:18 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 [this message]
2013-11-19 22:39 ` Eric Cooper
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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