alt Hacker NewsLinus, in 2005, couldn’t have gone for murmur, from 2008.
Was there “something like murmur” in 2005 that’s cryptographically better than SHA1?
Linus, in 2005, couldn’t have gone for murmur, from 2008.
Was there “something like murmur” in 2005 that’s cryptographically better than SHA1?
Yeah, in 2005, SHA-1 was just about the best you can do given the constraints of the time (without picking something much more esoteric, much slower, etc.). Using SHA-256 at that time would have been noticeably slower on the computers of the time, and made repo metadata take up a lot more space.