Re: WG Last Call: SHA-224

[Jack Lloyd <lloyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 10:18:43AM -0800, Paul Hoffman / IMC wrote:
> At 12:50 PM -0500 3/29/04, Jack Lloyd wrote:
> >Probably should have sent this to the list in general. I think it's a 
> >serious
> >question if SHA-224 offers any benefit in *any* environment. Are people
> >seriously rolling out new systems (with new algorithms, such as
> >SHA-{224,256,384,512}) that are still using 3DES?
> 
> Yes. TripleDES acceleration chips are much more widely available and 
> tested than AES acceleration chips.

Ah, good point.

-J