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Re:Minimalist C Libraries by stochastic_monk on Sunday June 10, 2018 @10:54AM (#17278373)
I can't find a benchmark for chacha20 as a PRNG (I've only found benchmarks for salsa20...). Why don't you try the code from [1] and see how it compares to your chacha20 random number generator?
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Re:Minimalist C Libraries by loup-vaillant on Sunday June 10, 2018 @01:01PM (#17278968)
I have done such a benchmark when implementing my cryptographic library: https://monocypher.org/speed

Also look at BearSSL: https://www.bearssl.org/constanttime.html 2.4GB per second for AES-INI is comparable to my own measurements with AVS-256 Chacha20.

Chacha is slightly faster than Salsa, mostly because it removed some word shuffling Salsa needed for matrix transposition.

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