Re: Syslog-sign: Extending Hash/Signature Algorithm field

Jon Callas <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.syslog
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Jul 23, 2008, at 5:40 AM, <[email protected]> <[email protected] 
 > wrote:

>
> The current NIST-approved hash functions would already consume >50%
> of the number space for hash algorithms (and we can expect more
> algorithms the hash algorithm competition). Thus, having a field
> with only 10 possible values doesn't sound too good (even if the
> protocol version field also allows some extensibility).
>
> If we e.g. allowed using letters as well, we'd have 62 possible
> values instead -- would that be a reasonable approach?

Yes.

	Jon


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