Crypto tangle
Achim Gratz
Stromeko at nexgo.de
Fri Jan 27 19:38:06 UTC 2017
Eric S. Raymond writes:
> It depends on which MAC algorithms we want to support, a question I've opened
> in a recent email. It looks like libsodium's support for hash functions in
> our set is limited to SHA-2, so libsodium can't replace OpenSSL.
SHA1 will go out of OpenSSL sooner than you might wish and I guess it
wasn't a simple oversight that it isn't in libsodium. SHA1 is
considered broken for cryptography (not quite as badly as MD5) and the
crypto folks will weed it out to prevent people from still using it.
Regards,
Achim.
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