Re: comment on reducing padding (Re: Re: libfastmint update 20040915)

"Eric S. Johansson" <[email protected]> Thu, 16 Sep 2004 14:38:39 -0400

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Adam Back wrote:

> Yes I thought about this one also.  However the downside is one can no
> longer easily verifying a stamp in script languages using the sha1sum
> utility.  One first would have to undeo the padding compression.

I do not see much value in being able to verify using sha1sum except as 
a party trick.  If this option is valuable and slower, it's probably 
worth making it a separate path of the code.

---eric