[CASSANDRA-14002] Don't use SHA256 when building merkle trees

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.0-alpha1, 4.0
• Severity: Normal
• Assignee: Marcus Eriksson
• Reporter: Marcus Eriksson

Authors

Marcus Eriksson

Reviewers

Michael Kjellman

• Created: 08/Nov/17 07:58
• Updated: 15/May/20 08:01
• Resolved: 05/Mar/18 07:22

Description

We should avoid using SHA-2 when building merkle trees as we don't need a cryptographic hash function for this.