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by simias
3241 days ago
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Nobody gets fired for choosing SHA-256. It's the de-facto standard these days, it's the most likely to have hardware acceleration etc... I think it's a pretty conservative choice. Furthermore I don't think hash performance is very critical for bittorrent, after all it's generally I/O bound. Could you even exploit length extension with bittorrent? Given that it cuts files in chunks of the same size it sounds pretty hard to sneak extra bytes in there. |
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Ah, that would explain a lot. (Not in this particular case, but why it seems to be the default choice in many settings).
> Could you even exploit length extension with bittorrent?
No Idea. I was just responding to a general point.