On Thu, 24 Oct 2019 22:39:06 +0200 Ulrich Mueller wrote: > In the rationale section, one reason given for the choice of the hash > algorithm (BLAKE2B) was to "avoid code duplication". Isn't that > argument moot, if all hashes supported by Portage are implemented? > (Or in other words, couldn't a faster hash function like MD5 be used?) FWIW blake2b is faster than md5. That was one of the design goals [1]. [1] https://blake2.net/ -- Hanno Böck https://hboeck.de/ mail/jabber: hanno@hboeck.de GPG: FE73757FA60E4E21B937579FA5880072BBB51E42