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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [GLEP59v2 0/5] GLEP59: Manifest2 hash types
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:07:30
Message-Id: 4E8C9CC7.3010908@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-portage-dev] [GLEP59v2 0/5] GLEP59: Manifest2 hash types by "Robin H. Johnson"
1 On 10/01/2011 12:40 AM, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
2 > Respun now with the help of ferringb. Cleans up the implementation and catches
3 > a few bug and improvements:
4 > - mhash priority moved lower than pycrypto/hashlib because mhash holds GIL
5 > while the other implementations don't.
6 > - hashlib does offer whirlpool if it was built against openssl 1.0.
7 >
8 > 1/5: Refactor RMD160 hashlib code for less-hardcoding
9 > 2/5: Manifest2 hash: Whirlpool
10 > 3/5: Manifest2 hash: SHA512
11 > 4/5: Manifest2 hash backend provider: mhash
12 > 5/5: GLEP59: Change live Manifest2 hashes to SHA256,
13
14 This is released in portage-2.1.10.21 and 2.2.0_alpha61, so please go
15 ahead and test the "manifest-hashes = SHA256 SHA512 WHIRLPOOL" setting
16 in metadata/layout.conf, which we can deploy after
17 >=sys-apps/portage-2.1.10.21 is stable.
18 --
19 Thanks,
20 Zac

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Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [GLEP59v2 0/5] GLEP59: Manifest2 hash types "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>