Re: SHA-1 in libcrypt

[Geoff Keating <geoffk at cygnus dot com>]

> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 09:49:35 -0700
> From: RoboHak <RoboHak@protovision.org>
> 
> I sent this email once before and it bounced, so here it is again.

> I've been wanting SHA in libcrypt for a while now, and I noticed
> some talk about it on libc-hacker.  Is anyone working on it, and
> would it make it into 2.2 if someone did?  I know that SRP (Secure
> Remote Passwords) uses SHA or MD5 for it's /etc/passwd replacement,
> and OpenLDAP also supports SHA.  I'm surprised OpenBSD doesn't
> support it currently, but they probably would if we started using
> it.  I know that $1$ is being used for MD5 and $2$ is used for
> blowfish in OpenBSD, so I assume $3$ is free and would be used for
> SHA.  If nobody is working on this currently, is there anyone here
> with hash algorithm implementation experience?  If not, I may try
> this for my own system and submit a patch when I'm done.  Any
> feedback on this would be appreciated.

You haven't said why you want SHA...

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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com>