On Wed, July 11, 2012 09:45, Sao Kiselkov wrote: > I'm not convinced waiting makes much sense. The SHA-3 standardization > process' goals are different from "ours". SHA-3 can choose to go with > something that's slower, but has a higher security margin. I think that > absolute super-tight security isn't all that necessary for ZFS, since > the hash isn't used for security purposes. We only need something that's > fast and has a good pseudo-random output distribution. That's why I > looked toward Edon-R. Even though it might have security problems in > itself, it's by far the fastest algorithm in the entire competition.
Fair enough, though I think eventually the SHA-3 winner will be incorporated into hardware (or at least certain instructions used in the algorithm will). I think waiting a few more weeks/months shouldn't be a big deal, as the winner should be announced Real Soon Now, and then a more informed decision can probably be made. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
