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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.

  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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