Re: conflict of interest

From: Assar Westerlund <assar@dont-contact.us>
Date: 05 Nov 1997 00:05:40 +0100

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Duane Wessels <wessels@nlanr.net> writes:
> The past couple of days I have been munging squid 1.2 to support using
> SHA digests as cache keys. This is of course a result of the
> discussion some months ago about compressing URLs which then became
> 'why not just use MD5 hashes?' FWIW, I started with SHA instead of MD5
> because some people hinted it might be better and has no use
> restrictions. However, it will be easy to plug MD5 in (or any other
> scheme) should any desire to do so.

MD5 has no restrictions. The code in RFC1321 is copyright RSA but
that's about all.

The thing I worry about is performance. SHA is slower than MD5. But
that's something we'll found out, I guess. :)

/assar

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