I would suggest that is a role for more cryptographic or hash provider libraries. These were included based on their prevalence in web and similar protocols, not for cryptographic strength. On May 2, 2014 6:59 PM, "Helmut Tessarek" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm wondering why APR only supports rather dated digest algorithms. > > I understand that they might be important for backwards compatibility, but > being the only ones available seems a bit strange to me. > > Are you planning to add functions for sha256, sha512, and ripemd-160 in the > future? (those are the ones mostly used these days) > > Cheers, > Helmut > > -- > regards Helmut K. C. Tessarek > lookup http://sks.pkqs.net for KeyID 0xC11F128D > > /* > Thou shalt not follow the NULL pointer for chaos and madness > await thee at its end. > */ >
