Re: SHA1dc on mac

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On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 3:57 AM Mike Hommey <mh@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> If I'm not mistaken in my reading of the various files involved, it
> looks like for some reason, building git on mac leads to using Apple
> Common Crypto for SHA1, rather than SHA1dc, which seems unfortunate.
> Is that really expected?

There was a discussion on this topic a while back[1], and it does seem
that the behavior you describe is intentional[2].

> More generally, at this point, should anything
> other than SHA1dc be supported as a build option at all?

The conclusion [2,3] was that it likely would make sense to drop
support for Apple's CommonCrypto altogether, although nobody has yet
stepped up to do the work.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/CAMYxyaVQyVRQb-b0nVv412tMZ3rEnOfUPRakg2dEREg5_Ba5Ag@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/20160102234923.GA14424@xxxxxxxxx/
[3]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/CAPig+cQ5kKAt2_RQnqT7Rn=uGmHV9VvxpQ+UgDPOj=D=pq6arg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/



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