Add a base implementation of SHA-256 support

SHA-1 is weak and we need to transition to a new hash function.  For
some time, we have referred to this new function as NewHash.  Recently,
we decided to pick SHA-256 as NewHash.  The reasons behind the choice of
SHA-256 are outlined in the thread starting at [1] and in the commit
history for the hash function transition document.

Add a basic implementation of SHA-256 based off libtomcrypt, which is in
the public domain.  Optimize it and restructure it to meet our coding
standards.  Pull in the update and final functions from the SHA-1 block
implementation, as we know these function correctly with all compilers.
This implementation is slower than SHA-1, but more performant
implementations will be introduced in future commits.

Wire up SHA-256 in the list of hash algorithms, and add a test that the
algorithm works correctly.

Note that with this patch, it is still not possible to switch to using
SHA-256 in Git.  Additional patches are needed to prepare the code to
handle a larger hash algorithm and further test fixes are needed.

[1] https://public-inbox.org/git/20180609224913.GC38834@genre.crustytoothpaste.net/

Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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brian m. carlson
2018-11-14 04:09:36 +00:00
committed by Junio C Hamano
parent c166599862
commit 13eeedb5d1
10 changed files with 331 additions and 4 deletions

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@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ static struct test_cmd cmds[] = {
{ "scrap-cache-tree", cmd__scrap_cache_tree },
{ "sha1", cmd__sha1 },
{ "sha1-array", cmd__sha1_array },
{ "sha256", cmd__sha256 },
{ "sigchain", cmd__sigchain },
{ "strcmp-offset", cmd__strcmp_offset },
{ "string-list", cmd__string_list },