Crypto tangle

[Daniel Franke]

On 1/27/17, Mark Atwood <fallenpegasus at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ah, now I get it.  They do support new good stuff, they don't support old
> bad stuff.
>
> Daniel, are you suggesting we want to use OpenSSL instead of inline C of
> md5 and sha1 to take advantage of optimized asm and accellerated
> implementations?

Setting aside any countervailing considerations concerning
dependencies and binary footprint, yes. MAC computation lives in the
real-time critical section where speed means precision so any
optimization we can get here is a win.