[Babel-users] [babel] rather than ripemd160...

[Toke Høiland-Jørgensen]

Dave Taht <dave at taht.net> writes:

> David Schinazi <dschinazi.ietf at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I feel strongly against making anything but SHA-256 mandatory to
>> implement. It will delay publication and not improve the
>> interoperability story. That said, I agree that the Blake2 family is a
>> good fit here so it would be nice to have bird and babeld support them
>> - but they do not need to be in the spec.
>
> Are we weeks, months, or years away from publication? Do we have time
> to, like, actually code up, and test interoperability, performance,
> and methods, before prague?

Seeing as we already have prototype implementations in both babeld and
bird, I don't see why not; if someone volunteers to do the testing (*hint*) ;)

-Toke