[openssl-dev] [RFC] enc utility & under-documented behavior changes: improving backward compatibility

Robin H. Johnson robbat2 at gentoo.org
Fri Oct 6 18:41:42 UTC 2017


On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 10:39:03AM +0100, Matt Caswell wrote:
> > At the very least, it should be added to the big notes:
> > https://www.openssl.org/news/openssl-1.1.0-notes.html
> > (this was in fact the first place I looked when my data was broken,
> > there was nothing about the enc tool here).
> Well in fact it is there:
> 
>   *) Changed default digest for the dgst and enc commands from MD5 to
>      sha256
>      [Rich Salz]
> 
> Perhaps that is a little brief - it doesn't really explain the
> implications of the change.
The entry you just copied is from the full ChangeLog, not the notes
page.

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