Re: Why not SHA256 in cipher suite?

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On 08/20/2009 07:15 AM, Xizhi Zhu wrote:
> I found that in GnuTLS, SHA256 is not used in any cipher suites (i.e.
> not listed in gnutls-cli -l). However, they are defined in RFC 5246,
> e.g. TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256 (0x00,0x3C). I wonder why they are
> not supported in GnuTLS as they can provide a higher security level.

I think there is active development work starting on the SHA256 suites.
 Please see:

 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnutls-devel/2009-08/msg00109.html

hth,

        --dkg

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