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From: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
To: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Cc: Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice@gmail.com>,
	Matt Weber <matthew.weber@collins.com>,
	"Yann E . MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>,
	Buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/git: prefer OpenSSL SHA-1 and SHA-256 implementation
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2023 11:04:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87cz7aden6.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230119095842.445227-1-bagasdotme@gmail.com> (Bagas Sanjaya's message of "Thu, 19 Jan 2023 16:58:42 +0700")

>>>>> "Bagas" == Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> writes:

 > Git is shipped with its own implementation of SHA-1 and SHA-256.
 > However, when OpenSSL is available (BR2_PACKAGE_OPENSSL=y), it is
 > preferable to leverage the OpenSSL version of these hash algorithm
 > instead. --with-openssl configure flag doesn't enable that, though.

 > Set OPENSSL_{SHA1,SHA256} make variable when OpenSSL package is
 > selected.

 > Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>

What is the added value of doing this? Size? Speed? Why is it not the
upstream default?

A quick search for git + OPENSSL_SHA1 lead me to:

https://www.spinics.net/lists/git/msg125401.html

Which is old, but argued for not using the openssl implementation
because of performance concerns.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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  reply	other threads:[~2023-01-19 10:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-01-19  9:58 [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/git: prefer OpenSSL SHA-1 and SHA-256 implementation Bagas Sanjaya
2023-01-19 10:04 ` Peter Korsgaard [this message]
2023-01-19 20:35   ` Peter Seiderer
2023-01-20  2:35     ` Bagas Sanjaya

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