Re: ISSUE-22 (Is SHA1 good enough?): Is sha1 as a DigestMethod strong enough for Widgets digital signatures?

Based on the October 21 discussion with the XML Security WG:

  <http://www.w3.org/2008/10/21-wam-minutes.html#item07>

The the group decided SHA-256 is required thus this issue is closed.

-Regards, Art Barstow



On Jun 27, 2008, at 2:02 AM, ext Web Applications Working Group Issue  
Tracker wrote:

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> ISSUE-22 (Is SHA1 good enough?): Is sha1 as a DigestMethod strong  
> enough for Widgets digital signatures?
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> http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/track/issues/
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> Raised by: Josh Soref
> On product:
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> The widgets 1.0: Digital Signature specification currently mandates  
> that the DigestValue be calculated using RSA-SHA1(and indicated as  
> such by the DigestMethod). However, weaknesses have been found in  
> SHA1 [1]. So would some other DigestMethod be more appropriate?  
> does it really matter that SHA1 has been "broken" for this use case?
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> [1] http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/02/sha1_broken.html
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