bug#37420: [PATCH] Recommend against SHA-1 for security-related applications

[Stefan Kangas]

Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:

> >>>>> On Tue, 17 Sep 2019 09:05:09 +0300, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> said:
>
>     >> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
>     >> Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 23:50:33 +0200
>     >> Cc: 37420@debbugs.gnu.org
>     >>
>     >> +These symbols corresponds to the following hashing algorithms:
>     >> +
>     >> +    md5    - MD5
>     >> +    sha1   - SHA-1
>     >> +    sha224 - SHA-2 / SHA-224
>     >> +    sha256 - SHA-2 / SHA-384
>     >> +    sha384 - SHA-2 / SHA-384
>     >> +    sha512 - SHA-2 / SHA-512
>
>     Eli> Please always use "--" to imply an em-dash in plain text.  In this
>     Eli> case, perhaps an even better way would be to explicitly say
>     Eli> "corresponds to".
>
> You have sha256 -> SHA-384

Thanks Eli and Robert.  How about the attached patch?

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas

0001-Add-tests-for-secure-hash-and-improve-doc-string.patch
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