Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg@fifthhorseman.net writes:
From the documentation i could find, it looks like the strongest digest libnettle supports is SHA256. Are there plans to add support for SHA512 or other members of the SHA-2 family?
I don't have any particular plans, which means that it will be added when either I need it for something, or somebody else submits an implementation (including test cases).
What are the interesting use cases for SHA-512? I guess it's getting more interesting as 64-bit machines are getting more common.
I also haven't been following the NIST hash competition very closely, but whatever comes out of that process should be high on the wish list.
(i suppose the same question holds for the primitives in libhogweed that include a digest operation, such as RSA signing)
Adding support for new hashes there is easy, as soon as people have agreed on which object id to use.
My resend here is unsigned, but it would be nice to be able to send signed mails to the list!
Agree! I'm not sure how to fix it, maybe it's sufficient to add "multipart/signed" to mailman's pass_mime_types?
/nisse