SHA 256

[syvex]

Does anyone have any interest in adding SHA-256 (maybe SHA-512 as well) to the Foundation/Crypt? The reason I ask is the available hash algorithms MD5 and SHA1 have know vulnerabilities. It would be nice to have the latest and greatest right out of the box.

Or is there a way to get to this through Poco::Crypto?

[guenter]

I guess the best way, now that we have Crypto, is to add a Poco::DigestEngine subclass for OpenSSL EVP_DigestInit() and friends (http://www.openssl.org/docs/crypto/EVP_DigestInit.html).
I'll see if I can get this into 1.3.7.

[aderouineau]

It would be nice to have AES and Blowfish as well then.

[syvex]

Guenter, that would be great!

I've been looking at POCO for a few months now, and I've never seen better written C++. I'm not sure how I can live without it

[syvex]

It would be nice to have AES and Blowfish as well then.

There is already AES and BF support with Poco::Crypto::CipherKey("aes256", ...) or Poco::Crypto::CipherKey("bf", ...). Be sure to build Poco with OpenSSL so that it can pick it up.

See Crypto/CipherFactory.h and Crypto/CipherKey.h.

Cheers