[ccache] Why not using MD5?

2004-11-15 Thread Gunnar Ritter
tri...@samba.org wrote: You are badly misinterpreting that table in HAC. Yes, you are right. Sorry for the brainfart. Gunnar

[ccache] Why not using MD5?

2004-11-15 Thread tri...@samba.org
Gunnar, while reading the implementation notes for ccache, I came to the question why it uses MD4 and not MD5. MD4 has a significantly higher collision probability (2^20 instead of 2^64, cf. Menezes/ Oorschot/Vanstone, 'Handbook of Applied Cryptography', p. 339,

[ccache] Why not using MD5?

2004-11-15 Thread Egmont Koblinger
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 06:25:49PM +1100, Martin Pool wrote: The other factor is whether the cache will grow to include a million files. We're building a distribution using a build system completely created by us and it intensively uses ccache. We have approx 1000 packages, including, of