Re: [RFC] adding support for md5

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> 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.
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