Re: Support for hash algorithms other than SHA-1

At 12:58 PM -0700 6/27/05, Blake Ramsdell wrote:
> Are there any reasons besides implementation ease to promote or 
> discourage the SHA-512-derived algorithms?
Flinging unnecessary options at implementers and users does not help 
get use or interoperability. If someone believes that there is a real 
class of users for whom a collision attack that requires *more than* 
2^128 work exists, I'd like to hear it.
--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium