Status of Poly1305 and use of AES-NI in Poly1305, UMAC?

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Aloha!

What is the status of Poly1305 in Nettle, i.e. is the branch ready to be merged into master or when might that happen?

I have to admit that I haven't studied how UMAC and Poly1305 uses (in what phase) the block cipher. Would they gain any substantial performance if they could use AES-NI when available?

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