[noise] snow: a rust implementation based on screech

[Trevor Perrin]

On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 5:40 AM, Jake McGinty <me at jake.su> wrote:
> On May 30, 2017, at 8:56 AM, Trevor Perrin <trevp at trevp.net> wrote:
>
> Cool, I assume that's 250 MB/sec?
>
>
> It’s genuinely showing ~2500MB/s assuming ring’s benchmark tests are also
> accurate (results matching the similar AES-GCM TLS tests done in
> https://github.com/briansmith/crypto-bench when run on my laptop). Running
> on another server just now I see ~1500MB/s.

Wow.  That's believable (e.g. slide 3 below), but impressive.

https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/interim-2016-cfrg-01/slides/slides-interim-2016-cfrg-1-7.pdf

Trevor