We are using Java avro in one of our products and found out that it only supports MD5 to generate the hash for protocol texts. We have customers who require FIPS which, in turn, require a hash algorithm stronger than MD5, i.e., SHA. My searches did not yield any requests for this in the past. It seems to me that it may be fairly straightforward to add this support, namely, modifying Protocol.java to add SHA support. Since we're only using Java, this is our focus. Does this sound right?
Marylou
