Fast MAC algorithms?

[Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn]

I recommend Poly1305 by DJB or VMAC by Ted Krovetz and Wei Dai.  Both  
are much faster than HMAC and have security proven in terms of an  
underlying block cipher.

VMAC is implemented in the nice Crypto++ library by Wei Dai, Poly1305  
is implemented by DJB and is also in the new nacl library by DJB.

http://cryptopp.com/benchmarks-amd64.html

Says that VMAC(AES)-64 takes 0.6 cycles per byte (although watch out  
for that 3971 cycles to set up key and IV), compared to HMAC-SHA1  
taking 11.2 cycles per byte (after 1218 cycles to set up key and IV).

If you do any measurement comparing Poly1305 to VMAC, please report  
your measurement, at least to me privately if not to the list.  I can  
use that sort of feedback to contribute improvements to the Crypto++  
library.  Thanks!

Regards,

Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn
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