Crypto tangle

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Fri Jan 27 19:50:59 UTC 2017


Gary E. Miller <gem at rellim.com>:
> Yo Mark!
> 
> On Fri, 27 Jan 2017 18:17:40 +0000
> Mark Atwood <fallenpegasus at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Can libsodium upstream take a pull request that adds the hash
> > functions that we need?
> 
> My understanding is that they considered md5 and sha1 too dangerous to
> use and would not be complicit with anyone doing do.

I did not know this, but I deduced it was true from the absence of support
for those functions.
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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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