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Good to know, and knowing this, it underlines how much sense Linus' decision makes
by mongol 4y ago
Good to know, and knowing this, it underlines how much sense Linus' decision makes
- Groxx 4y agoYeah, the non-malicious failure mode is extremely reasonable, and overall I think it's a good choice... minus not building in support for changing the algorithm from the beginning. Checksum algorithms somewhat regularly need changing. This was completely foreseeable. The malicious failure modes... I don't know. No doubt something is possible, particularly when you account for common surrounding-system usage patterns.