Re: [PATCH] Passthrough MD5/SHA1 calculation of uploaded files
| From: | David Santinoli | Date: | Tue, 08 May 2007 14:25:29 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [PATCH] Passthrough MD5/SHA1 calculation of uploaded files | ||
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On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 04:30:28PM -0500, Richard Lynch wrote:
>
> Can you PLEASE make 100% certain that this is specifically documented
> to NOT be a "Security Feature" and it is NOT intended to indicate
> secure transmission of the file?
It is not meant to be a "security feature". Not in the least.
Instead, my intent was to make hash computation easier and faster for
those (rather common) cases in which signatures are used for duplicate
file detection etc..
Cheers,
David
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