| commit | 27dc04c54506967fcaa87b2d560547ee5633040c | [log] [tgz] |
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| author | brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> | Wed Nov 14 04:09:37 2018 +0000 |
| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | Wed Nov 14 16:54:53 2018 +0900 |
| tree | 488f25ff856706ec8eaf74ea2bcfafa0252c9061 | |
| parent | 13eeedb5d17ca3539600b6618d103b652ecc8ab0 [diff] |
sha256: add an SHA-256 implementation using libgcrypt Generally, one gets better performance out of cryptographic routines written in assembly than C, and this is also true for SHA-256. In addition, most Linux distributions cannot distribute Git linked against OpenSSL for licensing reasons. Most systems with GnuPG will also have libgcrypt, since it is a dependency of GnuPG. libgcrypt is also faster than the SHA1DC implementation for messages of a few KiB and larger. For comparison, on a Core i7-6600U, this implementation processes 16 KiB chunks at 355 MiB/s while SHA1DC processes equivalent chunks at 337 MiB/s. In addition, libgcrypt is licensed under the LGPL 2.1, which is compatible with the GPL. Add an implementation of SHA-256 that uses libgcrypt. Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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