Release Notes

24 Algorithms and Key Sizes

RSA BSAFE Crypto-J 6.2.5 Release Notes

Message Digest Algorithms

The following table lists the supported message digest algorithms in this release of

Crypto-J.

Table 14 Message Digest Algorithms

Mode/Description

Key Bits

(or Equivalent)

Native

Support

PKCS #11

MD2

MD2, MD5 and SHA1 are included for backward compatibility only. Please upgrade to use the SHA2 family of

algorithms. MD2 should not be used.

-YesNo

MD5

1, 2

MD5 should not be used for signing.

64 Yes Yes

SHA-1

1, 3

NIST recommends SHA-1 only be used in certain circumstances. See

http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/toolkit/secure_hashing.html

for more information.

80 Yes Yes

SHA-224 112 Yes No

SHA-256 128 Yes Yes

SHA-384 192 Yes Yes

SHA-512 256 Yes Yes

SHA-512/224 112 Yes No

SHA-512/256 128 Yes No

SHA3-224 112 Yes No

SHA3-256 128 Yes No

SHA3-384 192 Yes No

SHA3-512 256 Yes No

SHAKE-128 128 Yes No

SHAKE-256 256 Yes No

RIPEMD-160 80 No No