Re: git: 3a5855dd220b - main - gbde: stop rebuilding sha512 bits

From: Colin Percival <cperciva_at_tarsnap.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2023 05:47:12 UTC 
On 4/25/23 22:36, Kyle Evans wrote:
>      In the early days of gbde, it linked against libmd.  Shortly after
>      conception, phk replaced ARC4 with SHA-512, but libmd did not have SHA2
>      at the time thus he built a copy of sha2.c for gbde.
>      
>      Fast forward 3 years, cperciva adds SHA2 to libmd -- this makes gbde's
>      build of sha2.c redundant, but it's (understandably) overlooked.  Let's
>      simplify the gbde build now and just assume that libmd includes the most
>      optimal implementation.

Slight correction: I added *sha256* to libmd in 2005 (FreeBSD 6.0); markm
added sha512 to libmd in 2011 (FreeBSD 9.0).

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Colin Percival
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