From: Austin S Hemmelgarn <ahferroin7@gmail.com>
To: Alex Elsayed <eternaleye@gmail.com>, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Btrfs: add sha256 checksum option
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 15:26:15 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <547CCEE7.2010407@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m5ifrt$hhe$1@ger.gmane.org>
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On 2014-12-01 14:34, Alex Elsayed wrote:
> Alex Elsayed wrote:
>
>> * He was comparing CRC32 (a 32-bit non-cryptographic hash, *via the Crypto
>> API*) against SHA-1 (a 128-bit cryptographic hash, via the Crypto API),
>> and SHA-1 _still_ won. CRC32 tends to beat the pants off 128-bit non-
>> cryptographic hashes simply because those require multiple registers to
>> store the state if nothing else; which makes this a rather strong argument
>> that _hardware matters a heck of a lot_, quite possibly _more_ than the
>> algorithm.
>
> Ah, correction - it seems he was comparing his own implementations, rather
> than the Crypto API ones - but the points still hold, seeing as the Crypto
> API does provide both algorithms.
Actually, I did the tests using the userspace interface to the kernel's
Crypto API.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-01 20:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-24 5:23 [RFC PATCH] Btrfs: add sha256 checksum option Liu Bo
2014-11-24 5:23 ` [RFC PATCH] Btrfs-progs: support sha256 checksum algorithm Liu Bo
2014-11-24 8:23 ` [RFC PATCH] Btrfs: add sha256 checksum option Holger Hoffstätte
2014-11-24 18:55 ` Duncan
2014-11-24 19:34 ` John Williams
2014-11-25 10:30 ` Liu Bo
2014-11-25 10:52 ` Daniel Cegiełka
2014-11-25 23:17 ` John Williams
2014-11-26 12:50 ` Holger Hoffstätte
2014-11-26 17:53 ` John Williams
2014-11-25 10:28 ` Liu Bo
2014-11-24 20:07 ` Chris Mason
2014-11-24 20:58 ` Hugo Mills
2014-11-25 3:04 ` Qu Wenruo
2014-11-25 5:13 ` Zygo Blaxell
2014-11-25 11:30 ` Liu Bo
2014-11-26 13:36 ` Brendan Hide
2014-11-25 16:47 ` David Sterba
2014-11-25 19:45 ` Bardur Arantsson
2014-11-26 13:38 ` Brendan Hide
2014-11-26 13:58 ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2014-12-01 18:37 ` David Sterba
2014-12-01 20:35 ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2014-12-01 20:51 ` John Williams
2014-12-01 23:23 ` Alex Elsayed
2014-12-15 18:47 ` David Sterba
2014-11-25 16:39 ` David Sterba
2014-11-27 3:52 ` Liu Bo
2014-12-01 18:51 ` David Sterba
2014-11-29 20:38 ` Alex Elsayed
2014-11-29 21:00 ` John Williams
2014-11-29 21:07 ` Alex Elsayed
2014-11-29 21:21 ` John Williams
2014-11-29 21:27 ` Alex Elsayed
2014-12-01 12:39 ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2014-12-01 17:22 ` John Williams
2014-12-01 17:42 ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2014-12-01 17:49 ` John Williams
2014-12-01 19:28 ` Alex Elsayed
2014-12-01 19:34 ` Alex Elsayed
2014-12-01 20:26 ` Austin S Hemmelgarn [this message]
2014-12-01 19:58 ` John Williams
2014-12-01 20:04 ` Alex Elsayed
2014-12-01 20:08 ` Alex Elsayed
2014-12-01 20:46 ` John Williams
2014-12-01 22:56 ` Alex Elsayed
2014-12-01 23:05 ` Alex Elsayed
2014-12-01 23:37 ` John Williams
2014-12-01 23:46 ` Alex Elsayed
2014-12-02 0:03 ` John Williams
2014-12-02 0:15 ` Alex Elsayed
2014-12-02 0:30 ` John Williams
2014-12-02 0:34 ` Alex Elsayed
2014-12-02 0:11 ` John Williams
2014-12-01 23:48 ` John Williams
2014-12-02 0:06 ` Alex Elsayed
2014-12-02 0:10 ` Alex Elsayed
2014-12-02 0:16 ` John Williams
2014-12-02 0:28 ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2014-12-02 0:43 ` Alex Elsayed
2014-12-02 0:53 ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2014-12-02 1:25 ` Alex Elsayed
2014-12-02 1:32 ` Alex Elsayed
2014-11-30 22:51 ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2014-11-30 22:59 ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2014-11-30 23:05 ` Dimitri John Ledkov
2014-12-01 2:55 ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
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