Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 03:49:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org> To: dhh@androcles.com (Duane H. Hesser) Cc: brandon@roguetrader.com, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SHA-1 encryption for crypt() Message-ID: <199709240749.DAA26241@homeport.org> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.970923201311.dhh@androcles.com> from "Duane H. Hesser" at "Sep 23, 97 08:04:05 pm"
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I maintain a list of free crypto libraries in a variety of languages. See www.homeport.org/~adam/crypto/ Bruce Schneier's Applied Cryptography is a good place to start learning about this stuff. I'll note that both SHA and Blowfish have test vectors available. Adam Duane H. Hesser wrote: | | On 23-Sep-97 Brandon Gillespie wrote: | >Just curious, I am the one who is crufting up crypt(), and I'm (and have | >been) near committing it for a while, but I've been trying to dig up more | >information on SHA-1 encryption. I havn't even been able to hear back | >from the author of the library I'm using! (Paul Kocher wrote the library, | >and his web pages are at http://www.cryptography.com). | > | >I would like to dig up more information on SHA-1 encryption, before I | >commit it. Anybody who can help would be greatly appreciated. In the | >meantime I may just integrate blowfish too.. | > | >-Brandon Gillespie | > | | Take a look at | | http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/cryptlib/ | | I just happened across this site today, and it is permanently bookmarked now. | The "author" of the site provides a "cryptlib" which includes just about | every crytpographic technique which appears useful today (downloadable, | free, NON-US SITE). If you select "algorthms" from the page index, you | will get a table of algorithms included in cryptlib, each linked to "somewhere". | The SHA entry is linked to a copy of the FIPS standard for SHA, which I | presume should be what you need. | -------------- | Duane H. Hesser | dhh@androcles.com | -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume
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