Crypto tangle

[Greg Rubin]

If you are deeply concerned with speed, the older (less recommended)
interfaces for MD5 and SHA1 in OpenSSL are faster than the newer EVP
interface. (I don't have the numbers in front of me, but you may want to do
some benchmarking to see if you care.)

https://www.openssl.org/docs/man1.0.1/crypto/SHA1.html
https://www.openssl.org/docs/man1.0.1/crypto/MD5.html

Greg

On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 11:51 AM Eric S. Raymond <esr at thyrsus.com> wrote:

> Gary E. Miller <gem at rellim.com>:
> > Yo Mark!
> >
> > On Fri, 27 Jan 2017 18:17:40 +0000
> > Mark Atwood <fallenpegasus at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Can libsodium upstream take a pull request that adds the hash
> > > functions that we need?
> >
> > My understanding is that they considered md5 and sha1 too dangerous to
> > use and would not be complicit with anyone doing do.
>
> I did not know this, but I deduced it was true from the absence of support
> for those functions.
> --
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