Re: openssl.cnf

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 08:29:17AM -0700, Alt wrote:
> A family of hash functions.
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-2
> 
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 6:10 AM, Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost> 
> wrote:
> > I just noticed in /usr/share/examples/openssl/openssl.cnf:
> >
> > [ req ]
> > ...
> > default_md              = sha2
> >
> > and wonder: what is sha2?

I'm just surprised because that is the only place that "sha2" appears
in the openssl code - EVP_get_digestbyname must do magic!

Cheers,

Patrick