Re: latest patches

[Jean-Luc Cooke <jlcooke@certainkey.com>]

Sandy said...
There may be overhead issues. How fast is SHA-256 compared to MD5
and SHA-1? This mainly a concern for random.c.

J-L says...
Look at http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~bosselae/ripemd160.html

sha256 is is 3times slower than md5, sha512 is 10times slower then
sha256 (mostly because of 64bit operations on a 32bit machine).

Is there a need for a single easy-to-code-with interface to all the
hash algorithms?  I've got one right here should you want it.  GPL of
course.  And should we want low-footprint implementations, I can send
those into the fry as well.

JLC

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