Crypto timings

[Greg Rubin]

Mind running the timings with the legacy interfaces as well?  We may
determine that the speed benefits are outweighed by the risks and
complexities of an older API, but it would be good to have the data so we
can make an informed decision.

https://www.openssl.org/docs/man1.0.2/crypto/md5.html
https://www.openssl.org/docs/man1.0.2/crypto/sha.html

Greg

On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 7:50 AM Eric S. Raymond <esr at thyrsus.com> wrote:

> Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
> > The speedup applies to any type of crypto.  I didn't bother implementing
> the
> > MD5 half.  The change is just cleaning up the per-digest initialization.
> > We'll want it for anything going forward.
>
> Please commit it, then.  And please do the MD5 code in
> libntp/a_md5encrypt.c
> and libntp/ssl_init.c to; might as well fix it all at once.
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