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Re: Cool! But maybe not for the BA break-in?

>especially when considering mobile devices and power consumption. Maybe SHA computing has been optimized in hardware?

Yes. Pretty much all relevant ARM devices support ARM NEON, which is a SIMD extension that includes acceleration of SHA384 and SHA512.

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