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From: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
To: Ulrich Windl <ulrich.windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: "SHA1" or "SHA-1"
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 08:53:04 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b4087cc50904240653n2e297231u21ab728e1de134cd@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49F1D1C6.9238.64B16D7@Ulrich.Windl.rkdvmks1.ngate.uni-regensburg.de>

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 07:50, Ulrich Windl
<ulrich.windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de> wrote:
> I always thought, the official notation for "Secure Hash Algorithm #1" [FIPS-180-
> 1] was "SHA-1", and not "SHA1". However in the documentation I found many
> occurrencies of "SHA1". If someone is working on spelling errors, could that be
> changed?

I too believe it is SHA-1; I endorse changing all occurences of SHA1 to SHA-1.

> Unfortunately RFC 3174 talks about "SHA-1" all the time, with the exception of the
> title that says: "US Secure Hash Algorithm 1 (SHA1)"...

Sigh... Such is the world of "standards".

      reply	other threads:[~2009-04-24 13:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-24 12:50 "SHA1" or "SHA-1" Ulrich Windl
2009-04-24 13:53 ` Michael Witten [this message]

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