[PATCH] Add class java.security.StandardMessageDigests

[Florian Weimer]

On 05/06/2014 03:14 PM, Xuelei Fan wrote:

>> 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.

Okay, let's bury this for now.  We can revisit it again once 
hardware-accelerated hashing makes the instantiation overhead more 
visible. :-)

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team