Add SHA-256/512 hash algorithm to crypt(3) (kern/124164)
Robert Watson
rwatson at FreeBSD.org
Sun Feb 6 06:47:56 UTC 2011
On Sun, 30 Jan 2011, Mark Murray wrote:
> Just as a first cut, I'm going to "FreeBSD-ify" the code, to get it up to
> our style(9) standards. Apart from stylistic issues, we already have SHA256
> and SHA512 in our libraries, and they don't have alignment issues, So I'll
> use them instead. You've donated to code to "public domain"; any objection
> if I make this a BSD 2-clause license with FreeBSD as the copyright holder?
> Many places have weird problems with the concept of "public domain", and
> 2-clause BSD is pretty darned close.
In general, we strongly discourage the use of pseudonymous copyright holders.
Use the legal names of holders wherever possible. Having as few copies of
$hashalgorithm as possible also an excellent idea.
(Agreed that the public domain is problematic due to differing notions of
public domain in different jurisdictions. Our preferred reference license
remains in /usr/share/examples/etc/bsd-style-copyright; it's ideal if patches
come with that pre-attached by the author.)
Robert
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