"Weger, B.M.M. de" <b.m.m.d.we...@tue.nl> writes: >> Bottom line, anyone fielding a SHA-2 cert today is not going=20 >> to be happy with their costly pile of bits. > >Will this situation have changed by the end of 2010 (that's next year, by the >way), when everybody who takes NIST seriously will have to switch to SHA-2?
I have a general outline of a timeline for adoption of new crypto mechanisms (e.g. OAEP, PSS, that sort of thing, and not specifically algorithms) in my Crypto Gardening Guide and Planting Tips, http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/crypto_guide.txt, see "Question J" about 2/3 of the way down. It's not meant to be definitively accurate for all cases but was created as a rough guideline for people proposing to introduce new crypto mechanisms to give an idea of how long they should expect to wait to see them adopted. Peter. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majord...@metzdowd.com
