[OTR-dev] DSA in OTR

[Fedor Brunner]

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libgcrypt supports DSA specified in FIPS-186-3


On 17.02.2014 22:00, Fedor Brunner wrote:
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> Hi, the current long term keys in OTR are using old DSA standard
> NIST 800-57 with 1024 bit prime and with SHA-1 as hash function.
> 
> Are there any plans to support new DSA standard FIPS 186-4 ? Are
> there any plans to support RSA keys ?
> 
> ECRYPT II Yearly Report on Algorithms and Key Lengths (2012) 
> http://www.ecrypt.eu.org/documents/D.SPA.20.pdf
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> NIST required many applications in federal agencies to move to
> SHA-2 after 2010 because of the weakness in SHA-1. 
> http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/toolkit/secure_hashing.html
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