Support for Intel SHA extensions
Open
Jira status: REOPENED
mirrored
type: enhancement
- Dominant language
- C
- Stars
- 108
- Forks
- 95
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
Description
### Description
AMD Ryzen, Intel Goldmont and Icelake processors support the [Intel SHA extensions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_SHA_extensions), it can accelerate SHA1/SHA256 hashing.
### Issue request type
[ ] Question
[X] Enhancement
[ ] Bug
Contributor guide
Research direction
The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Because development has moved from mbed-crypto to Mbed TLS, first confirm whether the request belongs in the successor project, then locate its SHA-1/SHA-256 implementation and hardware-capability handling. Done means Intel SHA extension acceleration is supported and verified on the listed processor families.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- c
- Domain
- cryptography
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 15/100