Re: Password Digest Registry

On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 8:43 AM Rowan Collins <rowan.collins@gmail.com> wrote: > As I understand it, the purpose of the $foo$ syntax is to uniquely identify > each algorithm, so would it make sense to pass the prefix string to the > register call, and maintain a lookup table internally of prefix => handler? > If that's an assumption we can definitely make, then absolutely, that simplifies a lot of the design. When preparing this I wasn't 100% confident that this would hold true (maybe $foo${hashspecificstuff},v=1 is different from $foo${hashspecificstuff},v=2), and I didn't want to create a problem for future us. But I suppose we can always extend the protocol if it comes to that. > You mention ext/sodium checking if ext/standard has already registered some > or all of its algorithms, but don't specify a method to do so; if the > registry was prefix-oriented, there could be a standard API such as: > Yeah, I realize I left out a means to actually enumerate the registered method internally, that certainly needs to be added, even if we use deterministic identifiers. -Sara