Re: [RFC] adding support for md5

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Chris Wedgwood <cw@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 01:50:32PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>> I can see the point of configurable hashes, but it would be for a
>> stronger hash than sha1, not for a (much) weaker one.
>
> Why any configuration option at all?  What in practice does it really
> buy?

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.

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