On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 07:31:45AM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: > Frederik Eaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Maybe we need an option to trade off speed for quality, > >> if it makes such a big difference. > > > > Hmm. Maybe there will be a difference. Well, why don't I make > > ISAAC_LOG or ISAAC_WORDS part of isaac_state so that shred and sort > > can use different values? I don't think it will be important for > > 'sort' to use a very strong hash, since crackers only have the order > > of the hash values to go by, and not the values themselves. > > This seems like a very good point. > How about having this in rand-isaac.h: > > #ifndef ISAAC_LOG > # define ISAAC_LOG 8 > #endif > > then define ISAAC_LOG to 3 just before including it from sort.c?
Then I would also have to include rand-isaac.c in sort.c, since rand-isaac.c itself includes rand-isaac.h, and is normally compiled separately. What's wrong with making it a parameter of the state structure? Frederik _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
