On Tuesday, 18 June 2019 11:01:07 PDT Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development wrote: > On 18/06/2019 18:01, Thiago Macieira wrote: > > We have them because we made a mistake when we added SHA3 support. We've > > kept them for compatibility, for people who had hashes to compare to and > > had accidentally used Keccak. > > > > They're the only ones we couldn't fall back to Linux's AF_ALG or OpenSSL's > > support, which often contain more optimised code that ours. > > Weren't there some reports about users that have accidentally generated > Keccak hashes with Qt 5.x, and thus required the algorithms to be left > in in order to have backwards compatibility? (Sure thing, those hashes > should have been regenerated by now...).
Yes, which is why we've left them around for now. I'm asking we need to keep them in 6.0. -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Software Architect - Intel System Software Products _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development
