From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] adding support for md5
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 00:14:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060823041453.GA25796@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vr6z9s376.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> I personally am not interested in making this configurable at
> all. The hashcmp() change on the other hand to abstract out 20
> was a good preparation, if we ever want to switch to longer
> hashes we would know where to look.
What about all of those memcpy(a, b, 20)'s? :-)
I can see us wanting to support say SHA-128 or SHA-256 in a few
years. Especially as processors get faster and better attacks are
developed against SHA-1 such that its no longer really the best
trade-off hash function available.
--
Shawn.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-23 4:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-18 6:01 [RFC] adding support for md5 David Rientjes
2006-08-18 9:59 ` Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2006-08-18 10:21 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-08-18 12:31 ` Petr Baudis
2006-08-18 20:35 ` David Rientjes
2006-08-18 10:52 ` Trekie
2006-08-18 10:56 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-08-18 11:27 ` Trekie
2006-08-18 11:37 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-08-18 21:52 ` Jon Smirl
2006-08-19 2:35 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-08-19 20:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-08-21 20:44 ` Chris Wedgwood
2006-08-22 6:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-08-23 4:14 ` Shawn Pearce [this message]
2006-08-23 4:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-08-23 6:49 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-08-24 7:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-08-24 8:08 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-08-24 10:34 ` Junio C Hamano
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-08-19 3:19 linux
2006-08-19 22:30 ` Petr Baudis
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