On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Alex Elsayed <eternal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Why not just use the kernel crypto API? Then the user can just specify any > hash the kernel supports.
One reason is that crytographic hashes are an order of magnitude slower than the fastest non-cryptographic hashes. And for filesystem checksums, I do not see a need for crypotgraphic hashes. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
