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Re: how to phase in new hash algorithms?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Fri Mar 25 09:48:45 2005
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From: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com, smb@cs.columbia.edu
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Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 16:14:24 +1200
"Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu> writes:
>We all understand the need to move to better hash algorithms than SHA1. At a
>minimum, people should be switching to SHA256/384/512; arguably, Whirlpool is
>the right way to go. The problem is how to get there from here.
>
>So -- what should we as a community be doing now?
Kick it upstairs to the political layer. Someone else's problem, we've already
shown them what the solution is, our job is done.
Peter :-).
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