Re: [OpenCoin-devel] Fwd: [GSoC-2015] OpenCoin Digital Cash App

[Tom S. <to...@op...>]

Hi Stefan,

On 15/03/15 21:41, Stefan Xenon wrote:
> A while ago we did some tests and found that native JS may be
> problematic because it is very slow for some of our crypto operations.
> We concluded that a native "module" would be a good choice when using
> Phonegap. This module would be native platform code (e.g. Java for
> Android) and perform the crypto calculation. Do you have experience in
> using such?
Out of interest what were the performance problems in doing this using
browser crypto? I'd have thought that with faster browsers, and built in
random number generation this should perform quite well by now. In
firefox and chrome and probably IE12 there is asm.js support - making
implementations potentially significantly faster:

https://github.com/vibornoff/asmcrypto.js/tree/master/src

Anyway, just interested to know where the bottleneck would be?

Thanks,

Tom