svn commit: r239569 - head/etc/rc.d

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Thu Sep 6 17:42:51 UTC 2012


David O'Brien <obrien at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> RW <rwmaillists at googlemail.com> writes:
> > IMO the order should be reversed or the low-grade stuff should be
> > piped through sha256.
> We considered that.  Arthur wanted to do it sooner, but I'm concerned
> about impact of multiple sha256 invocations on a large amount of data
> on low-end MIPS.

Is there a reason to choose sha256 over a weaker, faster hash?

DES
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