Re: [LC] 7.9.5 The hmac() Function (PR#67) from John Boyer on 2007-08-14 (www-forms-editor@w3.org from August 2007)

From: John Boyer <xforms-issues@mn.aptest.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 02:05:01 -0500
To: Steven.Pemberton@cwi.nl
CC: www-forms-editor@w3.org
Message-Id: <200708140705.l7E751qQ008642@htmlwg.mn.aptest.com>

Hi Steven,

The alternatives have been reduced to a single keyword per hash algorithm: MD5
and SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512.
As part of that, MD5 was added (esp. since md5 was removed).

Thanks,
John Boyer

> 
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xforms11/#fn-hmac
> 
> Why bother with all the alternatives for the parameter?
> 
> MD5 is missing from the list.
> 
>

Received on Tuesday, 14 August 2007 07:08:29 UTC