[PATCH] D18055: ELF: Implement --build-id.

Ed Maste via llvm-commits llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org
Thu Mar 10 13:30:39 PST 2016


On 10 March 2016 at 15:17, Rafael EspĂ­ndola <rafael.espindola at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> That is a bit too weak I think, but we can block this on getting a
> better MD5 or use another strong but fast hash.

There's no reason at all to use MD5 anyway. It's broken for its
original purpose as a cryptographically secure hash, though I don't
think that matters for build-id's uses. However, there are hashes that
are both more secure and more performant than MD5.


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