On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 09:51:55AM -0400, Nick Mathewson wrote: > On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 8:56 AM, Adam Langley <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 7:13 AM, Ian Goldberg <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Nick, were you planning on using djb's qhasm code, or the C version > >> (curve25519-donna)? (A quick look at the latter suggests it's doing > >> left-to-right, so some changes would still be required, but not evil > >> assembly ones. > > > > donna is much faster than the reference implementation on 64-bit, but > > much slower at 32-bit. The reference implementation was, indeed, > > derived from a qhasm source, although I don't have it. (donna was only > > intended to work on 64-bit systems, the 32-bit version is just for > > completeness.) > > It's likely we'll want to use the fast reference implementation on > 32-bit intel (It's assembly, right?), and donna on 64-bit platforms. > We're going to need to find an answer for 32-bit PPC and ARM > platforms, though. Any suggestions there?
Does "the 32-bit version is just for completeness" mean there _is_ a (slower?) 32-bit version in donna? Or only for x86? - Ian _______________________________________________ tor-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev
