On Mon, Jun 03, 2019 at 08:30:22PM +0200, David Sterba wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 03, 2019 at 04:58:46PM +0200, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> > This patchset add support for adding new checksum types in BTRFS.
>
> V4 looks good to me, with a few minor fixups added to topic branch,
> including the sha256 patch. As noted this may not be merged and now
> servers for the testing purposes.
Thanks \o/
[...]
> We'll need that one, briefly checking the progs souces, the same
> cleanups will be needed there too.
Yep, I've already started doing the progs side as well.
>
> > b) David requested to have three hash algorithms, where 1 is crc32c, one
> > cryptographically secure and one in between.
>
> Let me summarize the current satus:
>
> for strong hash we have SHA256 and BLAKE2. For the fast hash xxhash and
> murmur3 have been suggested. Let me add XXH3 and xxh128 for now (they're
> not finalized yet).
I know there's a tendency to not trust FIPS but please let's not completely
rule out FIPS approved algorithms (be it SHA-2 or SHA-3) because we will get
asked to include one sooner or later.
Byte,
Johannes
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