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Date:      Wed, 09 Mar 2005 13:10:35 -0800
From:      Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>
To:        Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libmd Makefile sha256.3 sha256.h sha256c.c shadriver.c src/sbin/md5 Makefile md5.c
Message-ID:  <422F664B.2080001@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050309210113.GQ9291@darkness.comp.waw.pl>
References:  <200503091923.j29JN4Ti063868@repoman.freebsd.org> <422F50A6.907@criticalmagic.com> <422F55C6.3000207@freebsd.org> <422F5B36.5090400@criticalmagic.com> <422F5D94.4030702@freebsd.org> <20050309210113.GQ9291@darkness.comp.waw.pl>

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 12:33:24PM -0800, Colin Percival wrote:
> +> My personal feeling is that sha(384|512) are overkill on the side of
> +> hash length and probably underkill on the side of design (considering
> +> that they have the same basic design which has been repeatedly shown
> +> to be vulnerable to the Chinese attack) anyway -- we really need an
> +> AES-like process for selecting a new hash standard.
> 
> Colin, with all due respect. I don't think your personal feeling should be
> the reason to not support sha(384|512).

Of course -- I was just mentioning it as a side note.

> If you think your version is cleaner/better that the one from sys/, maybe
> it should be reviewed and sys/ version replaced, but we should not duplicate
> crypto code.

Again, I didn't know there was a version in sys/ until Richard pointed it
out; if someone wants to rip my sha256c.c out and replace it with some sort
of build magic which sucks in the version from sys/, I have no objection.

Colin Percival



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