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Re: [dane] Digest Algorithm Agility discussion (checkpoint)

Andrew Sullivan <ajs@anvilwalrusden.com> Tue, 18 March 2014 19:20 UTC

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On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 11:09:31AM -0700, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> 
> If an operator wants to use a particular hash algorithm *for any reason*, we should not stop them.
> 

I would say this instead as, "We will not be able to stop them anyway,
so we should focus on interoperability and maybe some sound advice,"
but I know lots of people will disagree.

A

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