Re: UC fips compliant

SHA-1 is no longer recommended, as collision attacks on it are well known. Minimum is something in the SHA2 family, depending on strength / length requirement.

Julian Satchell

From: reportlab-users <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Shea, Steven K
Sent: 21 September 2021 16:23
To: [email protected]
Subject: [reportlab-users] fips compliant

Report Lab is using mds to create hashes. Mds is not fips compatible. We had to change that code to use sha1. It's a simple change.

Steven Shea
Staff Software Engineer



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