Mads Toftum wrote:
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 04:54:07PM -0400, Brian Akins wrote:
Any reason md4 was not used in mod_cache? In my ad hoc tests, it seems much faster. I do not know the in-and-outs of encryption, but is there any compelling reason to use md5 over md4 in this case? We don't care if someone "cracks" this and gets a url...
The choice between different digests wouldn't be wether one is easier to
"crack" than the other. The main concern should be how many collisions that there will be and wether the hash leaves us with a more or less
balanced tree, Come to think of it, perhaps it would be an idea to make the choice of
digest configurable -
Please, no more specialized knobs which 99.99999% of the world cares nothing about.
Bill
