Crypto timings
Eric S. Raymond
esr at thyrsus.com
Mon Jan 30 07:25:57 UTC 2017
Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
> There shouldn't be any MD5 code. Both MD5 and SHA1 should use a generic
> routing to calculate the digest.
They both do, now that everyting goes through OpenSSL. What I meant by the MD5
code was the calls in a_md5encrypt.c, as opposed to the ones in ntp_leapsec.c.
> I copied some code to make the timings. It took me longer than expected to
> find the code I wanted. I think part of the confusion was that some routines
> had MD5 in their names when they actually weren't MD5 specific. Mumble. I
> think that area could be cleaned up.
/me looks
Oh dear Goddess you are right. I think I noticed that before but spaced it.
I'll fix that up once I've had some sleep.
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