Re: SHA1 vs crypto doc

2018-01-06 Thread Hal Murray via devel
>> Looks like the shannn are blessed by FIPS 180-4 >> I'll update the doc to mention them. > Better check to make sure the support is in place first. I think I remember > floating a patch for that only to have Daniel thumbs-down it and say he > was going to do do that. That turned into an intere

Re: SHA1 vs crypto doc

2018-01-05 Thread Eric S. Raymond via devel
Hal Murray : > > Eric said: > > What could we say, other than: "Both MD5 and SHA-1 have been compromised. > > Don't trust either of the alternatives we actually support." :-) > > We support anything OpenSSL supports. It's just that ntpkeygen and all the > documentation hides it. > > >From man

Re: SHA1 vs crypto doc

2018-01-05 Thread Achim Gratz via devel
Hal Murray via devel writes: > Eric said: >> What could we say, other than: "Both MD5 and SHA-1 have been compromised. >> Don't trust either of the alternatives we actually support." :-) > > We support anything OpenSSL supports. It's just that ntpkeygen and all the > documentation hides it. > >

Re: SHA1 vs crypto doc

2018-01-05 Thread Hal Murray via devel
Eric said: > What could we say, other than: "Both MD5 and SHA-1 have been compromised. > Don't trust either of the alternatives we actually support." :-) We support anything OpenSSL supports. It's just that ntpkeygen and all the documentation hides it. >From man dgst on Fedora: openssl

Re: SHA1 vs crypto doc

2018-01-05 Thread Eric S. Raymond via devel
Hal Murray : > > No, SHA1 is no longer considered safe. The first collision was generated > > early last year. The git team is considering a move to SHA-2 (I think - I > > might be out of date on this.) > > Should we fix the documentation for the upcoming release? What could we say, other than:

SHA1 vs crypto doc

2018-01-05 Thread Hal Murray via devel
> No, SHA1 is no longer considered safe. The first collision was generated > early last year. The git team is considering a move to SHA-2 (I think - I > might be out of date on this.) Should we fix the documentation for the upcoming release? And update ntpkeygen. There are comments in the doc