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From: Eugene Medvedev <rn3aoh.g@gmail•com>
To: nncp-devel@lists.cypherpunks.su
Subject: Re: gemtext (was: So I made a thing: nncp-echomail)
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2025 22:34:41 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAO-d-4pWZ+-JGvQpj2CzGN0mccszYsW4qk8AeEoOMrb=tumuLA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aOF0WwmgnMOpNAgy@stargrave.org>

On Sat, 4 Oct 2025 at 22:25, Sergey Matveev <stargrave@stargrave•org> wrote:

> Ideally
> you would use SHA2-512/256 variant, where SHA2's state is initialised
> with different "magic numbers" to separate the context of ordinary
> SHA2-512 from SHA2-512/256, because if you happen to get SHA2-512, then
> you can "calculate" its stripped variant.

That, actually, was what I just changed it to upon reading up a bit on
how this is done in ZFS. I figure this is a sufficiently happy medium
for now. While there is no SHA-512/256 in coreutils,
openssl dgst -sha512-256 should be available enough to use as the
last resort...

--
Eugene Medvedev

  reply	other threads:[~2025-10-04 19:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-10-04 13:52 So I made a thing: nncp-echomail Eugene Medvedev
2025-10-04 16:56 ` gemtext (was: So I made a thing: nncp-echomail) Sergey Matveev
2025-10-04 17:51   ` Eugene Medvedev
2025-10-04 18:20     ` Sergey Matveev
2025-10-04 18:39       ` Eugene Medvedev
2025-10-04 19:23         ` Sergey Matveev
2025-10-04 19:34           ` Eugene Medvedev [this message]
2025-10-15 20:46   ` Eugene Medvedev
2025-10-26 11:13     ` NNCP_PACKET and NNCP_ORIGIN Sergey Matveev