[PATCH] digest-openssl: improve OpenSSL v3 support
Damien Miller
djm at mindrot.org
Mon Sep 1 09:44:30 AEST 2025
On Sun, 31 Aug 2025, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> From OpenSSL v3 documentation https://docs.openssl.org/3.0/man3/EVP_sha1/#notes:
>
> Developers should be aware of the negative performance implications
> of calling this function multiple times and should consider using
> EVP_MD_fetch(3) with EVP_MD-SHA1(7) instead. See "Performance" in
> crypto(7) for further information.
hash/MAC instantiation doesn't happen very often in OpenSSH. Does this
change yield any observable performance benefit? ("make unit-bench"
might help here).
-d
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