On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 5:05 PM, Niels Möller nisse@lysator.liu.se wrote:
Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos n.mavrogiannopoulos@gmail.com writes:
The attached two patches update SHA3 to the final published version.
Thanks! Sorry I've been a bit silent during the summer, I've been on a long and partly offline vacation, and I'm going off again tomorrow and over the weekend. I really appreciate your work on sha3, it's pretty important. I'll review the patches when I get back. A question for the list: Is there any use of the current sha3 code (which is the hash algorithm at the time keccak won the sha3 competition)? Do we need to keep some kind of support for that algorithm, or can we just drop it and do standard sha3 only?
Not for my use cases. What I worry most is how would applications detect the correct sha3 being in place? Would there be a new definition in the header or should applications check the nettle version number? (if it is the latter it means that I cannot have a hot fix in Fedora for example, unless there is a new release).
regards, Nikos