The hash algorithms should be fast enough these days in software to handle usual network bandwidths. If you combine extremely high speeds with extremely slow CPUs, that's of course suboptimal.
We can consider using libnettle at some point, I assume this might give a nice speed up, but this is not planned for the immediate future as it requires an ABI break. ** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu) Importance: Medium => Wishlist -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1123272 Title: high cpu usage on download (not optimised SHA256, SHA512, SHA1) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1123272/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
