Arthur Mesh <[email protected]> writes: > "Dag-Erling Smørgrav" <[email protected]> writes: > > Is there a reason to choose sha256 over a weaker, faster hash? > Given the fact that yarrow uses sha256 internally, I don't think it's a > sound idea to add weaker links to the chain.
What can possibly be weaker than discarding most of the entropy provided by the administrator? David had a genuine concern about performance when stuffing large amounts of data into /dev/random. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [email protected] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
