Steve and Sam, Since asking the question I've found a second reason for needing SHA-1: a particular specification I'm in the process of deciphering (the IHE "Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing" profile) directly requires its use (for detecting changes).
My first goal was to encrypt individual data elements within a document. For this, a cryptographic hash function would be necessary (though, I realize, not sufficient). I've only cursorily considered doing this encryption (we're still evaluating whether it is needed), but I was thinking SHA-1 would be my preference here as well. So, I know I need SHA-1 (at least for the second reason). Thanks! Karl _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general
