Michał Górny schrieb: > Oh, and most notably, the speed loss will be mostly visible to users. > An attacker would have to compute the additional hashes only > if the fastest hash already matched, i.e. rarely. Users will have to > compute them all the time.
That is currently the case with portage, but not an inevitable consequence of having 3 hash functions in the Manifest. Portage could be made to check only one or two of them (even by default), giving the tie-breaking ability to those who need it, and speeding up things for those who don't. Best regards, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn