Generate machine ID using SHA-256 to avoid FIPS compliance issues #94
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While object ID generation doesn't rely on the cryptographic security of MD5, many FIPS environments block the use of MD5 entirely. Mongo has also moved away from MD5 in their implementations of object ID generation for the same reason [1]. They initially replaced MD5 with FNV-1a, but the C driver at least has since moved from FNV-1a to SipHash. In any case, the machine ID is generated only once during initialization in this code, so the speed of the chosen hash function is not important. [1] https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/DRIVERS-492
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While object ID generation doesn't rely on the cryptographic security of MD5, many FIPS environments block the use of MD5 entirely. Mongo has also moved away from MD5 in their implementations of object ID generation for the same reason [1]. They initially replaced MD5 with FNV-1a, but the C driver at least has since moved from FNV-1a to SipHash.
In any case, the machine ID is generated only once during initialization in this code, so the speed of the chosen hash function is not important.
[1] https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/DRIVERS-492