[U-Boot-Users] SHA1 Hash calculation

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <31192263.1132734126001.JavaMail.root at eni-cpps05.sth.basefarm.net> you wrote:
>
> The CRC32 is not collision-proof in 
> similar fashion that SHA1. In real life, if two binary images give the 
> same SHA1 checksum, you can say that these binaries are identical. With 
> CRC32 this is not so - or at least I would not count on that :-)

Well, normally you have additional information like the U-Boot  image
header, version id, etc.

But feel free to implement sha1 support - if  it  can  be  configured
cleanly away then it's fine...

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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