The review of std.hash package

[Dmitry Olshansky]

On 07-Aug-12 22:31, Ary Manzana wrote:
>
> I think "std.crypto" is a better name for the package. At first I
> thought it contained an implementation of a Hash table.

There is  std.container, so unambiguous for me.
As for std.crypto it's been discussed to death before. Short answer - 
no, because it's assumed to include other useful hash functions (like 
crc32, later I expect adler and whatnot).

Also keep in mind that cryptographic hash is more of a status then 
permanent property. Now that md5 was cracked, it is typically used only 
as normal hash (e.g. checksum). Same thing would one day happen to SHA 
family.


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Dmitry Olshansky