Re: [Chicken-users] Re: GPG support?

[Alaric Snell-Pym]

On 12 Feb 2009, at 2:26 pm, Tobia Conforto wrote:

> Alaric Snell-Pym wrote:
> > I already have a plan for plaintext passphrases, I just need to
> > figure out a nice way to make 256-bit ones - Tiger hashes will
> > produce 128 or 192 bit keys from passphrases, but not 256-bit ones
>
> I'm probably missing your point and stating the obvious, but SHA-256
> produces perfectly reasonable 256 bit keys from any passphrase.

True, there's an sha2 egg that does those... good point!

> Tobia


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