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On Thu, 2019-07-18 at 17:53 +0100, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: |
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> On Thu, Jul 18, 2019, 15:53 Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> > Introduce 'sha' flag that corresponds to SHA-NI instruction set. |
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> > This has two potential users, and is present in git version |
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> > of cpuid2cpuflags (pending release once the flag is added). |
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> A bit of bikeshedding: as I understand it, SHA-NI covers SHA-1 and SHA-256, |
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> but not SHA-3 or some of the other SHA-2 variants. Maybe name it sha-ni or |
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> sha_ni to be more accurate? |
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We already name AES-NI 'aes', so naming SHA-NI 'sha' follows suit. |
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Besides, unless I'm mistaken NI stands for 'new instructions', |
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so I don't see how that would be relevant to SHA algorithms supported. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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