[http-auth] Definition of SHA256 and SHA512/256 algorithms in RFC 7616

Chaim Geretz <chaim.geretz@idt.net> Wed, 28 December 2016 19:19 UTC

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Greetings,

I think that RFC 7616 needs to define or point to a document describing how
the various hash algorithms mentioned in Section 3.2 are to be implemented.

Inspecting the values used in Section 3.9.2 for userhash and response shows
that they are generated by truncating the hex output of a sha512 hash to
the initial 64 hex characters.

If this is the desired implementation of SHA512/256 then this should be
mentioned in the RFC.

If the intention is to use SHA512/256 as described in FIPS 180.4 then this
should be mentioned, and the values changed to
userhash="793263caabb707a56211940d90411ea4a575adeccb7e360aeb624ed06ece9b0b"
and response=
"3798d4131c277846293534c3edc11bd8a5e4cdcbff78b05db9d95eeb1cec68a5"

Chaim Geretz