On 2009-12-10 03:53 PST, Konstantin Andreev wrote: > On Thu, 10 Dec 2009, Lv, Zhiyuan wrote: >> >> I am planning to use the HASH_HashBuf (HASH_AlgSHA256...) in my own >> library for SHA256 computing. Currently I encountered an initialization >> issue.. Could someone kindly give me some suggestions? Thanks in >> advance! > > If your application need only crypto-primitives (like digesting, > encryption, signing/verification), you ought better use NSS PKCS#11 > module (softoken), without loading the whole NSS stack.
If Zhiyuan's library only needs hashing, and no other crypto primitives, I'd suggest that he should just use a hash function directly. For anything involving keys, I'd say to use at least the PKCS#11 module (as Konstantin suggested), and if he needs the higher level functionality, I'd suggest to use all of NSS, but for just hashing, that's all overkill, IMO. -- dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto
