Re: high-performance HMAC module
Bryan Mongeau <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.python.cryptography |
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| Organization | eEvolved |
| Message-ID | <PYTHON-CRYPTO%[email protected]> |
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 07:10 pm, Jason R. Mastaler wrote: > Bram Cohen <[email protected]> writes: > > By the way, the sha1 included in Python is very slow - around 2 > > megs/sec. > > I didn't know this. Any reason then why someone (you?) haven't > contributed a faster implementation for the Python standard lib? As a reference point, my SHA 256 implementation hits 12 MB/s and SHA 384/512 hits 6 MB/s on my 800 Mhz. Strange that the standard lib SHA 160 scores so low. Should be straight-forward to code properly. -- Bryan Mongeau eEvolved Inc. - IT Consulting & Custom Software http://eevolved.com/ -- "C keeps your hands tied. PERL gives you enough rope to hang yourself." -- Anonymous