Tag: POLYVAL

  • Linux Crypto Speeds Up: New Patches Deliver 53% Faster HCTR2 Mode

    Linux Crypto Speeds Up: New Patches Deliver 53% Faster HCTR2 Mode

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    Google engineer Eric Biggers has once again turned his attention to enhancing the performance of Linux’s cryptographic subsystem. Over the weekend, he submitted a series of nine patches to the kernel mailing list, aimed at relocating the POLYVAL implementation to the shared directory lib/crypto and replacing the base version of the algorithm with a faster…