<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:small">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</span> don't have the numbers in front of me, but you may want to do some benchmarking to see if you care.)<div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.openssl.org/docs/man1.0.1/crypto/SHA1.html">https://www.openssl.org/docs/man1.0.1/crypto/SHA1.html</a><br></div><div><a href="https://www.openssl.org/docs/man1.0.1/crypto/MD5.html">https://www.openssl.org/docs/man1.0.1/crypto/MD5.html</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Greg</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 11:51 AM Eric S. Raymond <<a href="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com">esr@thyrsus.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Gary E. Miller <<a href="mailto:gem@rellim.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">gem@rellim.com</a>>:<br class="gmail_msg">
> Yo Mark!<br class="gmail_msg">
><br class="gmail_msg">
> On Fri, 27 Jan 2017 18:17:40 +0000<br class="gmail_msg">
> Mark Atwood <<a href="mailto:fallenpegasus@gmail.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">fallenpegasus@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class="gmail_msg">
><br class="gmail_msg">
> > Can libsodium upstream take a pull request that adds the hash<br class="gmail_msg">
> > functions that we need?<br class="gmail_msg">
><br class="gmail_msg">
> My understanding is that they considered md5 and sha1 too dangerous to<br class="gmail_msg">
> use and would not be complicit with anyone doing do.<br class="gmail_msg">
<br class="gmail_msg">
I did not know this, but I deduced it was true from the absence of support<br class="gmail_msg">
for those functions.<br class="gmail_msg">
--<br class="gmail_msg">
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