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.