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Re:Dan Kaminsky responds (at length) to DJB's 27C3 DNSSEC pr... by 16s on Thursday January 06, 2011 @09:53AM (#2075481)
DJB's sha1 code won the Engineyard sha1 contest back in 2009. His code was 14 times faster than OpenSSL's sha1. They were testing 3,079,431,974 hashes/second.

http://cr.yp.to/nearsha.html

http://www.win.tue.nl/cccc/sha-1-challenge.html

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Re:Dan Kaminsky responds (at length) to DJB's 27C3 DNSSEC pr... by tptacek on Thursday January 06, 2011 @11:11AM (#2075806)
That's far from the only speed record he's set; among other things, he's also held the record for the fastest AES implementation and the fastest FFT.
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