[openssl/openssl] ba8fd2: SHAKE documentation updates for default output len...
Shane
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Wed Aug 17 14:20:04 UTC 2022
Branch: refs/heads/openssl-3.0
Home: https://github.com/openssl/openssl
Commit: ba8fd22b358ce0467f4893bc8f925c6272964628
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/ba8fd22b358ce0467f4893bc8f925c6272964628
Author: slontis <shane.lontis at oracle.com>
Date: 2022-08-17 (Wed, 17 Aug 2022)
Changed paths:
M apps/dgst.c
M doc/man1/openssl-dgst.pod.in
M doc/man7/EVP_MD-SHAKE.pod
M test/recipes/20-test_dgst.t
Log Message:
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SHAKE documentation updates for default output length.
Fixes #18586
In order to not break existing applications the OpenSSL documentation
related to SHAKE has been updated.
Background:
All digests algorithms (including XOF's) use the bitlen as the default output length.
This results in a security strength of bitlen / 2.
This means that SHAKE128 will by default have an output length of 16
bytes and a security strength of 64 bits.
For SHAKE256 the default output length is 32 bytes and has a security
strength of 128 bits.
This behaviour was present in 1.1.1 and has been duplicated in the
provider SHAKE algorithms for 3.0.
The SHAKE XOF algorithms have a security strength of
min(bitlen, output xof length in bits / 2).
Reviewed-by: Matthias St. Pierre <Matthias.St.Pierre at ncp-e.com>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas at openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/18622)
(cherry picked from commit b7cf9dd2393de8e90a15e83466d9b8b781b18385)
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