Re: [RFC] adding support for md5

Chris Wedgwood [off-list ref] writes:

On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 01:50:32PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

quoted

I can see the point of configurable hashes, but it would be for a
stronger hash than sha1, not for a (much) weaker one.

Why any configuration option at all?  What in practice does it really
buy?

I personally am not interested in making this configurable at
all.  The hashcmp() change on the other hand to abstract out 20
was a good preparation, if we ever want to switch to longer
hashes we would know where to look.