[Openstack] [Cinder-backup]why use sha256 instead md5 in chunk based backup-driver

yang, xing Xing.Yang at dell.com
Tue Apr 11 15:53:20 UTC 2017


Hi,

Please see the following article regarding the risks of using MD5.

http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/4500270165/MD5-vulnerability-renews-calls-for-faster-SHA-256-transition

Thanks,
Xing


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Subject: [Openstack] [Cinder-backup]why use sha256 instead md5 in chunk based backup-driver

hi,all
   why we use sha256 instead md5 in chunk based backup-driver , in the current file chunkeddriver.py, we have object_sha256['sha256s'] list to store all the sha256 value of sha_block_size data , why we do not use md5 ,md5 is faster compute than sha256,and we all use the md5 value in  _backup_chunk too, so we just need to compute one time and used in two diffrent place,it save much time

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