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Re: [Microid] hash names

From: Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter AT jabber.org>
To: Fred Stutzman <fred AT metalab.unc.edu>, microid AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [Microid] hash names
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 20:07:02 -0600

Well, I notice that RFC 4871 (DKIM Signatures) uses "sha1" and "sha256"
so I will follow up with my IETF and IANA friends about this before
submitting the Internet-Draft.

Fred Stutzman wrote:
> +1, but no objections.
>
>
> On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Evan Prodromou wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 2007-28-07 at 20:18 -0600, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
>>
>>> Are there any objections to changing the algorithm names so that they
>>> are consistent with the IANA registry?
>>
>> It would probably be nice to retain "sha1" as a deprecated synonym, for
>> backwards compatibility.

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Re: [Microid] hash names, Peter Saint-Andre, 08/01/2007