[PATCH CIFS] use CryptoAPI MD4/MD5
Matt Mackall
mpm at selenic.com
Sat Oct 4 18:24:17 GMT 2003
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 11:00:01AM -0700, dean gaudet wrote:
> what about CryptoAPI is so expensive that you can't use a stack-based
> context?
The alloc functions hide a bunch of module lookup details and the size
of the context structures vary from one alg to the next. They also
tend to hide block-sized buffers to deal with fragments. So it's a
little ugly but not insurmountable.
> this seems pretty dumb converting a stack-based md5 context to multiple
> instances in multiple structures.
>
> the stack is almost guaranteed to be in L1 cache.
>
> multiplying that structure by N connections is just a waste of memory
> bandwidth. not to mention the locking crud you seem to need to do... the
> stack is implicitly locked.
>
> is CryptoAPI really this broken?
It's a bit inflexible in this regard, yes.
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