AArch64 clang support was added to 'master' on 2018-03-28. One would need to backport commits 8ee38806245ca8452051b1a245f44082323f37f6...9b58e4a03ba3aeff7bae3f40da706977870c9649 to 1.8 branch.

Another issue that comes in to mind is that current ARM/ARM64 HW feature detection most likely wont work on MacOS. Thus HW accelerated AES&SHA&GHASH implementation wont be used.

HAVE_COMPATIBLE_GCC_AMD64_PLATFORM_AS is never defined on ARM64 as it depends on "$mpi_cpu_arch" == "x86". Instead I think new check for GCC assembly ELF directives would be needed in configure.ac, similar to HAVE_GCC_ASM_CFI_DIRECTIVES check. Following check should work, but I have not yet tested it:

So, things I see are needed to be done for inclusion of this patch are:

1. GNU C coding style fixes.
2. Adding comment about that this implementation is based on GHASH implementation by Andy Polyakov with original license. This needs to be checked with @werner , but I think following would be sufficient:

When I took side-by-side comparison of cryptogams version to this patch, what I find is that they are strikingly similar. Operation/instruction ordering matches closely to parts of ghashp8-ppc.pl. In many parts variable/register names are the same also.

Ok. This was just something that I noticed while going through configure.ac. Should I make patch for this or do you want to?

Just one question at the moment.

Thanks for the new version. Unfortunately Minicloud seems to be down and therefore cannot test patch at the moment. I'll take look when I regain power64 access.

In D501#4558, @slandden wrote:

But I need it to shift H one to the left:
H1 = H << one;

Generally nice looking patch and great improvement for performance.

In T4906#133954, @JW wrote:

@jukivili,

I'd be interested in seeing the results of testing the patch. Can you provide a link to the results?

Attached patch should solve the issue for gcc 7.5 and clang 8.

Thanks for reporting this this. Your patch is correct.

Patch have been applied to master, https://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=libgcrypt.git;a=commit;h=79ed620ec46adbb08f5cea6a4865a95a436e4109

Thanks for bug fix. I've prepared patch and send it to mailing list https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gcrypt-devel/2020-January/004885.html. Let me know if Reported-by is ok/enough. I would have liked to put you as author of commit, but this Differential interface of quite horrible and does not give all the needed information (mainly "name <email>" format for git).

I've been wondering this also. I can start working on this.

Please note that C-based intrinsic implementation is the way to go now as that is the path chosen for PowerPC implementations in libgcrypt.

Poly1305 addition helper for ppc64 posted on mailing list: https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gcrypt-devel/2019-September/004804.html

PowerPC SHA-256 and SHA-512 implementations with little bit more tuning committed. Most notably, SHA-512 on POWER8 now gives similar performance to OpenSSL: