One problem is that the names do not match exactly. For example, OpenPGP uses the text name "SHA512", but that registry uses "sha-512", which lowercase and with a hyphen. This is significant as one of the OpenPGP message formats uses the hash name string to match on. Using that registry would involve a lot of confusing explanation in the OpenPGP draft to tell people to uppercase the names and remove hyphens.
David On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 02:58:27PM +0300, Miguel Garcia wrote: > Hi Sam: > > Can you elaborate a bit the reason you think these are different hashes? > > For example: the OpenPGP draft uses an MD5 hash. The OID value defined > in Section 5.2.2 matches the OID of the MD5 hash defined in the > mentioned IANA registry. The same is applicable to SHA-1, SHA224, > SHA256, SHA384, and SHA512. > > To me the look like they are the same objects that represent the same > "thing". > > /Miguel > > Sam Hartman wrote: > >http://www.iana.org/assignments/hash-function-text-names is an > >inappropriate registry for openpgp. The set of hashes there is not > >the same as the set of openpgp hashes. _______________________________________________ Gen-art mailing list [email protected] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/gen-art
