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| author |  Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2013-10-01 20:34:06 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2013-10-01 20:34:36 -0400 |
| commit | 2d8a1ba354653fb01f9f33ec126ca53d64200acf (patch) | |
| tree | 19606245947fa4824d3ce5dcec5c645341f4ef98 /debian/changelog | |
| parent | df58caaee491b729d35fa6a9a5e59eaa3c80cdc3 (diff) | |
Added SKEIN256 and SKEIN512 backends
SHA3 is still waiting for final standardization.
Although this is looking less likely given
https://www.cdt.org/blogs/joseph-lorenzo-hall/2409-nist-sha-3
In the meantime, cryptohash implements skein, and it's used by some of the
haskell ecosystem (for yesod sessions, IIRC), so this implementation is
likely to continue working. Also, I've talked with the cryprohash author
and he's a reasonable guy.
It makes sense to have an alternate high security hash, in case some
horrible attack is found against SHA2 tomorrow, or in case SHA3 comes out
and worst fears are realized.
I'd also like to support using skein for HMAC. But no hurry there and
a new version of cryptohash has much nicer HMAC code, so I will probably
wait until I can use that version.
Diffstat (limited to 'debian/changelog')
| -rw-r--r-- | debian/changelog | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 70d2b8d0a..0fddf8f97 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ git-annex (4.20130921) UNRELEASED; urgency=low * Use cryptohash rather than SHA for hashing when no external hash program is available. This is a significant speedup for SHA256 on OSX, for example. + * Added SKEIN256 and SKEIN512 backends. * Android build redone from scratch, many dependencies updated, and entire build can now be done using provided scripts. * assistant: Clear the list of failed transfers when doing a full transfer |