Why not use both DLLs? Prefer win32 wherever possible and use the lower level APIs only if absolutely necessary. Benchmark after you have figured this out. Performance is probably not a thing at this level of abstraction.

▲

nvme0n1p1 2 hours ago | parent [-]

What makes you think they haven't benchmarked?

Here's one fun example from following development on Zulip: advapi.dll loads bcrypt.dll, which loads bcryptprimitives.dll. bcryptprimitives.dll runs an internal test suite every time it's loaded into any process. So if you can avoid loading advapi.dll, your process will start faster.

▲

lelanthran 26 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Are you talking about the cipher tests that are run when any cipher library is loaded?

There's a reason they do that and it's not for shits and giggles. You could find yourself with broken ciphers and not know it.

Skipping the cipher (or hash - not sure now) tests seem like a good way to get exploited.

▲

delta_p_delta_x an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Is there a source for this? My Google- and GitHub-fu turns up nothing.

	▲	lelanthran 25 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		He might be talking about cipher test that respected cryptography libs do on initialisation to verify integrity. Skipping those seem like a really bad idea.