Re: [ANN] Pure Lua Crypto (PLC) - new algorithms

[Martin <eden_martin_fuhrspam@...>]

On 06/12/2017 05:59 PM, Phil Leblanc wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 3:29 AM, Russell Haley <russ.haley@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 7:50 AM, Martin <eden_martin_fuhrspam@gmx.de> wrote:
>>> Why not add MD5 at least for historically reasons?
> [...]
>> https://github.com/kikito/md5.lua
>>
>> fwiw
>> Russ
>>
> 
> Hi Martin and Russ,  I have added an MD5 implementation. I wrote it
> from the RFC 1321 reference in Lua 5.3 instead of reusing code because
> (1) it is fun (your definition of fun may vary)
> (2) Lua 5.3, with its 64-bit integers, bit operators and string
> pack/unpack allows to reduce a bit the gap with C implementations.
> 
> eg. on a i5 2.27 GHz laptop, this md5 hashes a 10-megabyte string in
> approx. 4 seconds.  Hurrah for Lua 5.3!!
> 
> Phil

I'm glad. I prefer to implement things basing on specs, not others code too.

My implementation of MD5 has similar speed, near 2.3MiB/s on i5 3.4GHz.

-- Martin