On 11/19/19 5:00 AM, Rushabh Lathia wrote:
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> My colleague Suraj did testing and noticed the performance impact
> with the checksums. On further testing, he found that specifically with
> sha its more of performance impact.
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I admit I haven't been following along closely, but why do we need a
cryptographic checksum here instead of, say, a CRC? Do we think that
somehow the checksum might be forged? Use of cryptographic hashes as
general purpose checksums has become far too common IMNSHO.
cheers
andrew
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