Jeffrey Walton <[email protected]> writes:

> Does SHA-1 switch to hardware acceleration for x86 and ARMv8
> automatically? Or is a different call required?

If Nettle is configured with --enable-fat, choice of assembly routines
is done at runtime. Otherwise, it's a compile-time choice.

Regarding sha1, development version (to be nettle-3.5) can use sha_ni
instructions on x86_64, for both sha1 and sha256.

There isn't yet any assembly code for ARMv8.

Regards,
/Niels

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