OTC vote: include Keccak digests in OpenSSL

Kurt Roeckx kurt at roeckx.be
Tue Sep 21 16:41:38 UTC 2021


On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 06:37:42PM +0200, Tomas Mraz wrote:
> On Tue, 2021-09-21 at 18:32 +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 07:14:51PM +1000, Dr Paul Dale wrote:
> > > Accept PR#16594 into master subject to the normal review process
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > This doesn't meet the "is a standard" requirement but it is in use
> > > and we
> > > have the implementation.  It just isn't exposed.
> > 
> > Can you describe where it is in use?
> > 
> 
> Citation from the issue #13033 linked from the PR:
> 
> "Ethereum and after it many cryptographic applications use the original
> pre-NIST variant of SHA3-256, these days named keccak256, where the
> delimiter byte is 0x1 rather than 0x6."

+1


Kurt



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