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* Update the AEGIS specification URL to the current draft
* std.crypto.auth: add AEGIS MAC
The Pelican-based authentication function of the AEGIS construction
can be used independently from authenticated encryption, as a faster
and more secure alternative to GHASH/POLYVAL/Poly1305.
We already expose GHASH, POLYVAL and Poly1305 for use outside AES-GCM
and ChaChaPoly, so there are no reasons not to expose the MAC from AEGIS
as well.
Like other 128-bit hash functions, finding a collision only requires
~2^64 attempts or inputs, which may still be acceptable for many
practical applications.
Benchmark (Apple M1):
siphash128-1-3: 3222 MiB/s
ghash: 8682 MiB/s
aegis-128l mac: 12544 MiB/s
Benchmark (Zen 2):
siphash128-1-3: 4732 MiB/s
ghash: 5563 MiB/s
aegis-128l mac: 19270 MiB/s