Hello, On 22-07-2010, Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-...@web.de> wrote: > Dario Teixeira <darioteixe...@yahoo.com> writes: > >> Hi, >> >>> If you decide to code the solution and provide the patch, I will be >>> happy to apply it to cryptokit (if the main author of cryptokit accepts >>> it, of course). >> >> I'm attaching the patches adding support for HMAC-SHA256 and HMAC-RIPEMD160 >> (I don't need the latter, but for the sake of completeness it seemed silly >> not to support it as well). Note that these are *very* straightforward >> patches -- kudos to Xavier for making Cryptokit so easy to extend. >> >> The caveat is that I'm not a cryptographer. I did, however, verify that >> these new HMACs pass all the test cases listed in RFC4231 (for HMAC-SHA256) >> and RFC2286 (for HMAC-RIPEMD160). >> >> Thanks for your attention! >> Cheers, >> Dario Teixeira > > While you are patching cryptokit anyway would it be possible to also add > functions to work on Bigarrays? >
Well in fact, HMAC-SHA256 and HMAC-RIPEMD160 has been implemented in the source code, but never released. So no patching involved. > One huge advantage of bigarray is that the data region is allocated > outside the GC heap and will never move. That means one can use > enter_blocking_section() / leave_blocking_section() while calculating > the checksum for a block of data. For multithreaded applications that > can speed up the program by the number of cores present. > Submit a feature request with as much data as possible on the BTS: https://forge.ocamlcore.org/tracker/?group_id=133 Regards, Sylvain Le Gall _______________________________________________ Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
