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Adam Back (aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk)
Fri, 3 Jul 1998 09:55:01 +0100
> Adam Back wrote:
> > I think discarding from the right is as good as mixing the bits back
> > in with xor for SHA1. The right is where people would I think
> > normally remove bits from anyway, because it is easier to code.
>
> Eh? OK, memcpy(x,y,n) is marginally easier than memcpy(x,y+m,n) but not
> enough of a difference that anyone is going to seriously make a choice
> on that basis, surely?
I was thinking of memcmp(x,y,n) -- would you code that memcmp(x,y+m,n)?
I think it is probably more that normally to "truncate" means to
remove from the end, so people would be more likely to do this.
Neither is hard to code.
Adam
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