The benchmark tests the speed of the following algorithms:
MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-512, RIPEMD-160, AES-128.
It can optionally be built to perform the same benchmark on
other crypto libraries, for comparison purposes.
The supported libraries are:
- crypto: OpenSSL's libcrypto;
- gcrypt: GnuTLS's libgcrypt;
- tomcrypt: LibTomCrypt
To enable them, use this syntax:
make VERSUS=crypto+gcrypt+tomcrypt tools/crypto_bench
They do not need to have been enabled in configure.
