On Wed, 2018-07-25 at 07:31 +0200, Niels Möller wrote:
> Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > True. I'll look into adding HMAC functions to nettle-benchmark
> > then.
> > It would be interesting to compare performance.
> 
> That would be great. It's better to measure performance than to
> speculate about it.
> 
> > It might be worth moving both index and block out of 'state'
> > function
> > and then updating compress/MD_* macros to accept separate
> > 'compression state' and 'buffer state' structures. This might
> > result
> > in some code cleanups. I'll give this idea a thought.
> 
> That would be conceptually very nice. I suspect there might be some
> complications from the count field (counter of compressed blocks),
> which
> most hash function have, but, e.g., sha3 doesn't. On the other hand,
> hmac is designed to be used only with MD-style hash functions, so I'm
> not sure hmac-sha3 is of any use.

It would be an overkill to have hmac-sha3, first because it is slow,
and secondly because it was designed to be a MAC as simple as SHA3(K,
msg).

regards,
Nikos


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