Re: [PATCH] Add x64 SHA-NI implementation to sha1 and sha256 in git ?

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"brian m. carlson" <sandals@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> If we ship the code, then someone has to maintain it, and I don't know
> if we have any assembly experts.  We might also have a bug that produced
> incorrect results, which would be pretty disastrous for the affected
> users.  It's much better for maintainability if we push that off onto
> the cryptographic library maintainers who are much more competent in
> that regard than I am (I will not speak for others) and let distro
> maintainers simply link the appropriate library, which, as I said above,
> they're already effectively doing.

Thanks for a well reasoned response.  Very much appreciated.




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