21 Apr
2013
21 Apr
'13
8:19 a.m.
Shaun Murphy shaunmurphy@outlook.com writes:
The limited literature for the newer VIA QuadCore E-Series embedded platform says that it now supports "Secure Hash Algorithm: SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512" but I'm not seeing any acceleration for SHA512 in the kernel modules or nettle / gnutls.
I think the optimizations you are looking at are in gnutls. Nettle itself only includes pretty generic x86_64 assembly for these algorithms. (Support for special code for certain processors, and runtime selection of the best routines, is desirable, but will most likely not be implemented soon).
Regards, /Niels
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