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Frank Denis
5af89b3dcc
std.crypto.chacha: support larger vectors on AVX2 and AVX512 targets (#15809)
* std.crypto.chacha: support larger vectors on AVX2 and AVX512 targets

Ryzen 7 7700, ChaCha20/8 stream, long outputs:

Generic: 3268 MiB/s
AVX2   : 6023 MiB/s
AVX512 : 8086 MiB/s

Bump the rand.chacha buffer a tiny bit to take advantage of this.
More than 8 blocks doesn't seem to make any measurable difference.

ChaChaPoly also gets a small performance boost from this, albeit
Poly1305 remains the bottleneck.

Generic:  707 MiB/s
AVX2   :  981 MiB/s
AVX512 : 1202 MiB/s

aarch64 appears to generally benefit from 4-way vectorization.

Verified on Apple Silicon, but also on a Cortex A72.
2023-05-22 20:33:35 +02:00
Andrew Kelley
6261c13731 update codebase to use @memset and @memcpy 2023-04-28 13:24:43 -07:00
Frank Denis
dff4bbfd24
Remove Gimli and Xoodoo from the standard library (#14928)
These are great permutations, and there's nothing wrong with them
from a practical security perspective.

However, both were competing in the NIST lightweight crypto
competition.

Gimli didn't pass the 3rd selection round, and is not much used
in the wild besides Zig and libhydrogen. It will never be
standardized and is unlikely to get more traction in the future.

Xoodyak, that Xoodoo is the permutation of, was a finalist.

It has a lot of advantages and *might* be standardized without NIST.
But this is too early to tell, and too risky to commit to it
in a standard library.

For lightweight crypto, Ascon is the one that we know NIST will
standardize and that we can safely rely on from a usage perspective.

Switch to a traditional ChaCha-based CSPRNG, with an Ascon-based one
as an option for constrained systems.

Add a RNG benchmark by the way.

Gimli and Xoodoo served us well. Their code will be maintained,
but outside the standard library.
2023-03-21 04:54:10 +00:00