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List:       gcrypt-devel
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] MD2 for libgcrypt
From:       Werner Koch <wk () gnupg ! org>
Date:       2010-07-24 7:05:01
Message-ID: 87k4ol1hsy.fsf () wheatstone ! g10code ! de
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Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de> writes:

> Yes, agreed from my side as well. But what can you do if customers force you 
> to use it, even with MD2?

An option might be to add flag to trustlist.txt, similar to "relax",
which suppresses validation of the root certificate.

I agree that validation of the root certifciate is not necessary because
we check the fingerprint anyway.  However that extra check revealed some
probelms in the past and thus I don't want to drop it completely.  I
can't remeber but there might have been a specification which required
this validation.

This won't help Daniel's request for adding a MD2 to use libgcrypt as a
crypto bench.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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