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Re: Added hashes.
From: Paul Rubin <//phr.cx@NOSPAM.invalid>
Date: Mon Dec 12 2005 - 08:45:20 CET
Date: Mon Dec 12 2005 - 08:45:20 CET
Colin Percival <cperciva@sfu.ca> writes:
> > If you're talking about modern pc's and hashes like sha256, the cpu
> > won't be able to keep up with the disk even for just one hash.
>
> On an AMD Athlon XP 2400+, I can sha256 a 1.1GB file in 16.3 seconds of
> CPU time. It takes over twice that much disk time.
Hey, that's pretty good. What implementation?
Received on Fri Dec 23 20:09:33 2005