Re: [PATCH] Add x64 SHA-NI implementation to sha1 and sha256 in git ?

"brian m. carlson" [off-list ref] writes:

If we ship the code, then someone has to maintain it, and I don't know
if we have any assembly experts.  We might also have a bug that produced
incorrect results, which would be pretty disastrous for the affected
users.  It's much better for maintainability if we push that off onto
the cryptographic library maintainers who are much more competent in
that regard than I am (I will not speak for others) and let distro
maintainers simply link the appropriate library, which, as I said above,
they're already effectively doing.

Thanks for a well reasoned response.  Very much appreciated.