Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 10:37:27 +0200 From: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com> To: Mohacsi Janos <mohacsi@niif.hu> Cc: Scott Gerhardt <scott@g-it.ca> Subject: Re: Report of collision-generation with MD5 Message-ID: <293AF1C6-F73B-11D8-91E7-00039312D914@fillmore-labs.com> In-Reply-To: <20040826091143.S63227@mignon.ki.iif.hu>
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Mohacsi Janos wrote: > [...] > I would also opt for having (by default) additional hash algorithms. I > would prefer using method of NetBSD: using an external program called > digest ( see security/digest port) to select the algorithms. Oliver > Eikemeier is working a ports building infrastructure and I think it > would be a good idea to this new infrastructure would support multiple > hash algorithm. The most easiest way would be to define a knob like > PREFERED_HASH that would list the algorithms that system would prefer, > and REQUIRED_HASH that would be required to checked: > - makesum should generate all the PREFERED_HASH > - fetch should fail if any of the REQUIRED_HASH failed devel/portmk supports generation of multiple hashes, although it will just verify the first of the sufficient ones. the problem is to test this stuff before 5.3. -Oliver
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