On 04/20/2012 07:40 PM, Kyle Hamilton wrote:
I'd like it to default to SHA2/256. This is particularly for deriving
256-bit symmetric keys from ECDH exchanged secrets.
Is that SHA-2-256 or SHA-2-512/256 ?
The latter seems to be gaining in popularity as it is slightly faster on
64-bit machines, has a higher safety factor, and fixes the message
extension weakness present in MD5, SHA-1, and plain SHA-2.
- Marsh
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