From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Witten Subject: Re: "SHA1" or "SHA-1" Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 08:53:04 -0500 Message-ID: References: <49F1D1C6.9238.64B16D7@Ulrich.Windl.rkdvmks1.ngate.uni-regensburg.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Ulrich Windl X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Apr 24 15:54:50 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LxLrb-0004zF-FK for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:54:47 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757551AbZDXNxM (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:53:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756830AbZDXNxL (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:53:11 -0400 Received: from mail-qy0-f118.google.com ([209.85.221.118]:52423 "EHLO mail-qy0-f118.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756571AbZDXNxK (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:53:10 -0400 Received: by qyk16 with SMTP id 16so2215806qyk.33 for ; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 06:53:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=WcAFxyZ+rHgQLvCIDKW4lwKQihTG61WCJbFQIjcwUTE=; b=ECr3EdQIkCaUpP5Fjb95wIJkuzO7Zyec1NXvLw3SY7nl4CEquxSHiaQsyarB/MAqYf HrY1fXw1ngJG6ZGme2NqMqVmQSBzw8HThY7w7fZQLqlO4yIqPTbVt0d7L6TBsjw2+R8f wTyBitC3joBQdPeh9ch6t505FZnA/gft1GseU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=jSL2TfQx4U4pgWH28pgDcrZZ4BcGnrgGM2FG5qERpEQi8h87y7Xc3qwitsnhnagKMe 7GCDgLhzy8+h4n7+Kv7W+IXc+acoXqIqfCf1EQIHA58cWLfZPV0Sj2sgUFxDjyJf5ULr RAGWtBvLI82Y/rOpi7D2NX6AiWVIQODaHr6rE= Received: by 10.224.32.146 with SMTP id c18mr2769454qad.58.1240581184244; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 06:53:04 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <49F1D1C6.9238.64B16D7@Ulrich.Windl.rkdvmks1.ngate.uni-regensburg.de> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 07:50, Ulrich Windl 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".