Re: Syslog-sign: Extending Hash/Signature Algorithm field
Jon Callas <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.ietf.syslog |
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| 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 _______________________________________________ Syslog mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/syslog