From: Shawn Pearce Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 04:14:53 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC] adding support for md5 Message-ID: <20060823041453.GA25796@spearce.org> In-Reply-To: <7vr6z9s376.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Junio C Hamano 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.