From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org, sand@blarg.net, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Adding sha256 and sha512 to C?
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 22:36:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTimL_C4+KuRrqowYZEBCzi5xY_+96w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DF3919C.9070907@cs.ucla.edu>
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 18:02, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> The advantage of this approach is that we don't pollute
> the Lisp namespace with one function name per algorithm.
I think generalization is a good argument, but "don't pollute the
namespace" is not. Interesting, widely used cryptographically secure
hash functions (which, I suppose, are the target of
crypto-hash-function) are introduced at a rate of one every X years, X
>> 1. (md5 is from 1992, sha-1 is from 1995, sha-2 is from 2001).
I'm pretty sure we "pollute the namespace" with all kind of functiosn
at a rate several orders of magnitude bigger than that ;-)
Juanma
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-11 20:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-28 3:18 Adding sha256 and sha512 to C? sand
2011-05-28 3:58 ` Paul Eggert
2011-05-28 7:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-05-30 4:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-06-11 5:43 ` Leo
2011-06-11 8:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-11 12:37 ` Leo
2011-06-11 15:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-11 16:02 ` Paul Eggert
2011-06-11 20:36 ` Juanma Barranquero [this message]
2011-06-12 0:34 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2011-06-12 13:03 ` Leo
2011-06-12 14:05 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2011-06-12 15:48 ` Deniz Dogan
2011-06-12 17:06 ` Richard Riley
2011-06-12 22:37 ` Paul Eggert
2011-06-19 16:08 ` Leo
2011-05-29 4:22 ` Leo
2011-05-29 5:18 ` Paul Eggert
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