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Question is a follow-up to this one. The question was about accelerating SHA1. I am writing an application, where I do have a choice of hash algorithm, as long as it's a strong one. I want to be able to use the one which could be CPU-accelerated on consumer grade AMD and/or Intel processors. Which one should I take?

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    No consumer CPU supports a hardware accelerated hash instruction, however Intel Haswell CPUs have AVX and BMI instructions, and can hit 0.6GB/s for SHA-512 (the obvious choice for security) or 1GB/s for SHA-1 – Richie Frame May 01 '14 at 05:02
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    BLAKE2b is about as close as you can get to a modern hashing algorithm that's CPU-accelerated. – Stephen Touset May 01 '14 at 06:26
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    Are you hashing many short messages, or few long ones? In the latter case you must use a tree hash to have any hope of parallelization. – CodesInChaos May 01 '14 at 10:48
  • @RichieFrame Almost no consumer CPU supports hardware accelerated hash instruction, as the VIA Eden processors do. They are however not known particularly for speed, so the mileage may vary. – Maarten Bodewes Jun 28 '15 at 13:16

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