[asterisk-dev] SHA1 and MD5 code?

[Kevin P. Fleming]

On 10/13/2011 05:23 PM, Hans Witvliet wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 13:20 -0400, Simon Perreault wrote:
>> On 2011-10-13 13:04, Tilghman Lesher wrote:
>>>> If someone wants to put together a patch for trunk, it's worth reviewing. I
>>>> guess the real question is: what are our current dependencies on OpenSSL,
>>>> and are the MD5 and SHA-1 operations used for
>>>> anything that doesn't also require OpenSSL?
>>>
>>> In answer to the second question, yes.  MD5 is used both by HTTP as well
>>> as AMI for non-plaintext authentication, without requiring the use of OpenSSL.
>>
>> OpenSSL may be the most ubiquitous library ever. I only see advantages
>> in using it for SHA1 and MD5.
>
> If i remember correctly (its some time ago) last FOSDEM a couple of
> blokes were telling that there were a lot of other ssl-libs. but the
> most devellopers are automatically using the libs from openssl without
> ever contemplating what let them to that choice.
>
> In contrast to openssl, some of them were able to use the power of the
> GPU for doing serious crunching, or use the AES-instructions of the
> latest I7 cpu's from Intel.

OpenSSL has hardware accelerator support as well.

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