Re: [PATCH] Implement SM3 hash algorithm in gnulib and the computing tool in coreutils.

[Bruno Haible]

Hi Jia,

> > Indeed, we don't have many crypto experts on the gnulib mailing 
> > lists. Therefore, I too would like the crypto experts on the 
> > libgcrypt or openssl mailing lists to evaluate the SM3 algorithm 
> > and your code first, before we can accept it in gnulib.
> 
> libgcrypt has merged SM3 hash function. See
> https://dev.gnupg.org/rC4423bf3cc4432b9bfe801ff74cb05e6f0dd3eccd

Or [1].

Thanks. I see it wasn't an easy discussion [2], but now it's over,
so I'm awaiting your gnulib patches.

> I plan to add addition commits to use SM3 functions exported by
> libgcrypt, and current implementation is used as baseline for review.

Yes, good.

Bruno

[1] 
https://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=libgcrypt.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/master
[2] https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gcrypt-devel/2017-October/thread.html