[PATCH] Add class java.security.StandardMessageDigests

Xuelei Fan xuelei.fan at oracle.com
Tue May 6 13:14:09 UTC 2014


On 5/6/2014 9:01 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> When the implementation of the underlying is unknown, it is hard to
>> estimate the detailed behavior in the unknown black box.
> 
> True.  So you think providing more efficient means for hashing
> relatively short byte sequences isn't worth the effort?
The benefits are small, I think.  It is easy to get similar improvement
in application layer, but if we want add this to JRE for general use, we
may need to evaluation too much uncertainties or limitations.

Xuelei



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