The review of std.hash package

Chris Cain clcain at uncg.edu
Wed Aug 8 06:50:22 PDT 2012


On Wednesday, 8 August 2012 at 13:38:26 UTC, 
travert at phare.normalesup.org (Christophe Travert) wrote:
> I think the question is: is std.hash going to contain only
> message-digest algorithm, or could it also contain other hash 
> functions?
> I think there is enough room in a package to have both 
> message-digest
> algorithm and other kinds of hash functions.

Even if that were the case, I'd say they should be kept separate. 
Cryptographic hash functions serve extremely different purposes 
from regular hash functions. There is no reason they should be 
categorized the same.


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