I agree it is unlikely that the JDK will lose support for SHA-1 because it
is used commonly, as is MD5.  So please feel free to use it.

Karl


On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 7:54 PM Shirai Takashi/ 白井隆 <shi...@nintendo.co.jp>
wrote:

> Hi, Horn.
>
> Jörn Franke wrote:
> >Makes sense
>
> I don't think that it's easy.
>
>
> >>> Maybe use SHA-256 or later. SHA-1 is obsolete and one never knows when
> it will be removed from JDK.
>
> I also know SHA-1 is dangerous.
> Someone can generate the string which is hashed into the same SHA-1 to
> pretend another one.
> Then SHA-1 should not be used with certifications.
> The future JDK may stop using SHA-1 with certifications.
> But JDK will never stop supporting SHA-1 algorism.
>
> If SHA-1 is removed from JDK,
> ManifoldCF can not be built for reasons of another using of SHA-1.
> Some connectors already use SHA-1 as the ID value,
> then the previous saved records will be inaccessible.
> I can use SHA-256 with Elasticsearch connector.
> How should the other SHA-1 be managed?
>
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