Re: dealing with hmac(3)

[Utkarsh Anand <uanand009%gmail.com@localhost>]

If multiple header files is leading to redundant code, I’d certainly prefer
a single header file. After all redundancy is a bad thing inside a
database, but we can have multiple copies of the database stored at
multiple locations on a distributed network (which I’m quite sure is
already the case, we have multiple servers holding the data, right?) Or at
least, if not on a distributed network at least we must be having a RAID
configuration other than RAID 0. Just my 2 cents. :)
Regards,
Utkarsh Anand

On Thu, 5 Oct 2017 at 10:42 AM, Taylor R Campbell <
campbell+netbsd-tech-userlevel%mumble.net@localhost> wrote:

> > Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2017 04:34:08 +0000
> > From: David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>
> >
> > 3. Going forward, create a new crypthash.h, and have it include all
> > the hash function headers (hmac.h, md5.h, sha1.h, rmd160.h, etc etc)
> > and document all the latter as deprecated. That is, going forward the
> > official interface for all of these will be <crypthash.h>. Add new
> > hash functions (and things related to hash functions, like hmac) only
> > to this file.
> >
> > 4. Sometime in the suitably distant future, like after -10 is out,
> > remove all the individual hash function headers.
>
> Why remove the individual header files?  Why not just use them as is?
> What's the benefit of another hodgepodge <crypthash.h>?
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