Is anybody knows about a linkable, quick MD5/SHA1 calculator library ?

[Fredrik Lundh]

DurumDara wrote:

> I use the Python standard modules, but I think that it can be faster if 
> I use C, or other module for it.

Python's MD5 and SHA-1 code is written in C, and is quite fast:

python -m timeit -s "import sha; s = sha.new(); S = '*'*1000000" 
"s.update(S)"
100 loops, best of 3: 12.2 msec per loop

python -m timeit -s "import md5; s = md5.new(); S = '*'*1000000" 
"s.update(S)"
100 loops, best of 3: 6.45 msec per loop

are you sure it's really a CPU-bound problem?

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