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| author | Mattias Andrée <maandree@operamail.com> | 2014-11-13 22:23:50 +0100 |
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| committer | Mattias Andrée <maandree@operamail.com> | 2014-11-13 22:23:50 +0100 |
| commit | 7b93f65f856c8382cd2d32fe5df3a9fa42b87929 (patch) | |
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| parent | fix warning (diff) | |
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Signed-off-by: Mattias Andrée <maandree@operamail.com>
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@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@ +SHA-3 has note been standardised yet! + +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Checksum utility for Keccak and its close +derivatives SHA-3, SHAKE and RawSHAKE. + +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Performance benchmark on a 1 GiB file (yes, +that is quite large) with /dev/urandom data: + +$ keccak-224sum +real 0m9.550s +user 0m9.223s +sys 0m0.320s + +$ keccak-256sum +real 0m9.841s +user 0m9.560s +sys 0m0.260s + +$ keccak-384sum +real 0m12.902s +user 0m12.580s +sys 0m0.313s + +$ keccak-512sum +real 0m18.084s +user 0m17.823s +sys 0m0.243s + +$ keccaksum +real 0m10.438s +user 0m10.140s +sys 0m0.287s + +$ sha1sum +real 0m3.421s +user 0m3.157s +sys 0m0.253s + +$ sha224sum +real 0m8.196s +user 0m7.910s +sys 0m0.263s + +$ sha256sum +real 0m9.361s +user 0m9.097s +sys 0m0.257s + +$ sha384sum +real 0m5.450s +user 0m5.223s +sys 0m0.220s + +$ sha512sum +real 0m4.507s +user 0m4.247s +sys 0m0.257s + +$ md5sum +real 0m2.987s +user 0m2.703s +sys 0m0.283s + +$ md6sum +real 1m28.873s +user 1m28.470s +sys 0m0.360s + + +Note: +The times are a bit random, and only one run +has been made. "user" is the most interesting +data. Additionally, only the pure keccak variants +have been tested because the difference is +between them and the other are quite small; +and of course the other hashing utilities from +other packages using other algorithm-families. + |