[guardian-dev] Crypto-oriented hardware acceleration on Android

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at guardianproject.info
Mon Jul 8 15:06:56 EDT 2013


I haven't heard of a framework to do it, but hopefully one exists.  Otherwise
it means writing your own CPU detection code and coding in assembly...

.hc

On 07/08/2013 02:08 PM, Billy Gray wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I was wondering if anyone here has had some experience with trying to take
> advantage of any hardware acceleration that may (or may not) be available
> on Android devices to speed up things like key derivation? I've been doing
> some searching for any high-level, relevant info as a starting point and
> coming up fairly empty. I'd really like to be able to use a high number of
> PBKDF2 iterations in one of our apps, but the iteration count I'm going for
> is just unacceptably high as a login speed for a user on a two year old
> Nexus S running 2.3.x (better on 4.1.1, but still not good enough).
> 
> Thanks in advance for any tips!
> Billy
> 
> 
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