Re:SHA-512 is 1.5x faster than SHA-256 on 64-bit platforms
by gcp on Thursday February 02, 2017 @04:01AM
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Harder to defend against timing attacks in JS, which are exactly some of the strongest attacks against modern cryptosystems.
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Re:SHA-512 is 1.5x faster than SHA-256 on 64-bit platforms
by angry_octet on Thursday February 02, 2017 @06:11AM
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Do you mean because of the lack of low level control/bit manipulation, vs C/asm, or something else? I would have guessed it was about the same as any interpreted/jitted higher level language (python/php/c#/java).