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

[Mark Murphy]

In theory, Renderscript Compute might be useful for this, though I
have negligible experience with it:

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/renderscript/compute.html

On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner
<hans at guardianproject.info> wrote:
>
> 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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