Re: ANNOUNCE: SHA-224 in Digest::SHA

From: Tom St Denis (tomstdenis_at_iahu.ca)
Date: 12/31/03 

Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 14:11:58 GMT

"Mark Shelor" <mshelor@comcast.removeme.net> wrote in message
news:k_SdnRzMe46T4G-iRVn-hA@comcast.com...
> Tom St Denis wrote:
>
> > No it makes sense to specify the protocol on the bit level. So if you
> > really NEED it you can use it.
>
>
> So then, you're disagreeing with the earlier poster who would want to
> disallow (or did he instead rather ambiguously say "bother to allow"?)
> bit-level digest computations on a PC? Not that it matters, I suppose,
> since neither you nor he nor I set the standards for these things. The
> real question is whether you're producing an implementation that allows
> all capabilities specified by the standard, or just making rather
> dubious excuses for not having done so.

They're not dubious excuses. But since you won't at least hold this
disussion with a modicum of civility I'll just say

I don't care. write your code how you write your code.

Tom

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