Re: [office] Passwords

[Daniel Carrera <daniel.carrera@zmsl.com>]

On Tue, 2006-28-11 at 06:29 -0500, Patrick Durusau wrote:
> Does anyone know if the list of hash functions posted by Florian 
> (thanks!) would be considered sufficient by government agencies? Or common?

I'm no expert, but I think that for the USA we are looking at NIST (ie.
SHA1, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512) and for Europe we are looking at NESSIE
(i.e. WHIRLPOOL, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512).

My vote is for the NESSIE list, while making support for SHA256 and
WHIRLPOOL mandatory.

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