On 7 Nov 2013, at 05:57, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: > Otherwise, it seems prudent to get out of > the hashing business and rip out md/sha1 entirely from apr 2.
-1 to ripping: that's pulling the rug from under existing apps. At worst, deprecate. The question is about exposing existing sha2 code. For: it's there, and serves someone's need. Against: it would appear to be less than complete, and to need a fair bit of work to look comprehensive. I guess I should take yours as a vote against what I was mulling over: namely inviting Dirkjan to submit a patch and commit if it WorksForMe and noone shouts? > I have no issue with providing a simple hash, these are used for just > about all arbitrary string values where you need to uniquify them into > a predictable byte token. That sounds like existing apr_md5 apps. -- Nick Kew
