Matthew J Ghio <mg5n+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes: Capstone chips do not use MD5. The algorithm in question was the gubmint's Secure Hash Algorythm, which is not the same as MD5. I don't think capstone uses SHA anyway...

Yes, Capstone uses SHA. I append a chunk from the most recent NIST Capstone release. Do we start calling it SHA-1? Will Capstone chips with SHA-2 interoperate with the ones already burned? Hmm. Jim Gillogly 7 Thrimidge S.R. 1994, 16:37 _______________________________________________________________________ CAPSTONE CHIP TECHNOLOGY CAPSTONE is an NSA developed, hardware oriented, cryptographic device that implements the same cryptographic algorithm as the CLIPPER chip. In addition, the CAPSTONE chip includes the following functions: 1. The Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA) proposed by NIST as a Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS); 2. The Secure Hashing Algorithm (SHA) recently approved as FIPS 180; 3. A Key Exchange Algorithm based on a public key exchange; 4. A general purpose exponentiation algorithm; 5. A general purpose, random number generator which uses a pure noise source. _______________________________________________________________________