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crypto.salsa20: make the number of rounds a comptime parameter

Open jedisct1 opened this issue 3 years ago • 0 comments

...instead of hard-coding it to 20.

  • This is consistent with the ChaCha implementation
  • NaCl and libsodium, that this API is designed to interop with, also support 8 and 12 round variants. The 12 round variant, in particular, provides the same security level as the 20 round variant, but is obviously faster.
  • scrypt currently uses its own non optimized version of Salsa, just because it use 8 rounds instead of 20. This will help remove code duplication.

No behavior nor public API changes. The Salsa20 and XSalsa20 still represent the 20-round variant.

jedisct1 avatar Nov 04 '22 12:11 jedisct1