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> HMAC is fast. Ah, yes I see. I just found a benchmark that shows HMAC to be up to four times faster than Blowfish. Well, that explains things.
by nessus42 14y ago
> HMAC is fast.
Ah, yes I see. I just found a benchmark that shows HMAC to be up to four times faster than Blowfish. Well, that explains things.
- Locke1689 14y agoNo, it doesn't. No one should be using Blowfish for anything (except its key scheduler for bcrypt) and Blowfish is known to be slow as hell. A SHA-2 HMAC is basically identical in speed to AES-CTR. Sure, you want an HMAC on that, too, but whatever -- get a modern processor or an AES coprocessor. I guarantee this is not your performance bottleneck.