Storing glyphs as Pixmaps

James Cloos cloos+pdx-xorg at jhcloos.com
Sun Aug 5 09:25:50 PDT 2007


>>>>> "Carl" == Carl Worth <cworth at cworth.org> writes:

Carl> I've replaced the weak XOR-based hash with a cryptographically strong
Carl> hash (SHA1) that will be (probabilistically) collision free. This
Carl> does introduce a new dependency of the X server on the openssl library.

If you want to avoid that dependency, there is at least one public domain
implementation of sha1 available.

Steve Reid's version can be found -- among other sites -- at:

http://www.pdcode.org/code/sha1/

A small modification could call that when necessary, or use the hardware
where available, eg on Via or Niagara2 processors.

-JimC
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