Improve speed of PBKDF2 by caching the digest state of the passphrase #277
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mbedtls_md_hmac_starts computes a hash block consisting of H(passphrase xor ipad), but this operations is performed again and again during the PBKDF2 computation even though it always produces the same result. Instead call
mbedtls_md_hmac_starts
once at the start of computation and usembedtls_md_hmac_restart
to reuse the same key again.In my measurements (x86-64 machine, gcc, using SHA-256, 1 million iterations) this is about 10% faster than the current code, which matters quite a lot eg on a server which regularly validates user logins against a hash database.