Re: Another SHA2 implementation

From: Juuso Hukkanen (juuso929_at_tele3d.net)
Date: 05/01/05 

Date: Sun, 01 May 2005 12:49:46 +0300

On 30 Apr 2005 10:16:13 -0700, "Tom St Denis" <tomstdenis@gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>Juuso Hukkanen wrote:
>> On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 16:23:12 +0200, Olivier Gay
>> <olivier.gay@a3.epfl.ch> wrote:
>>
>> >I wrote an optimized C software implementation of hash algorithms
>> >SHA-256, SHA-384 and SHA-512.
>> >The code is distributed under the BSD license:
>> >
>> >http://ouah.org/~ogay/sha2/
>>
>> btw. How amazing, last night I was looking after alternative (to
>> libtomcrypt) public domain/ BSD sources for SHA-512. Oliver could you
>> consider licensing Toms license into your SHA sources? Many of the
>> most widespread sources for a individual algorithms seem to be public
>> domain. My observation is that as time goes by, the most popular
>> sources for any individual algotithm will be those with the most
>> liberal license.
>
>No offsense to the OP but I don't see the point in using his code over
>mine [*]. We're both in C and achieve the same throughput. My license
>is public domain which is as open as humanly possible.
>
>[*] Note that I do see the value in implementing the algorithm. It's
>good experience.

Hi Tom,
Ok, this is perhaps one of those things that can only be seen from the
other side of the world. So let roll the boll....
    Have You ever heard about Libjuusocrypt

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