Is there an algorithm that computes the strength of a digest alg?

Weijun Wang weijun.wang at oracle.com
Mon Oct 24 01:52:25 UTC 2011


Hi Andrew

I need a method

   boolean isWeakerThan(String a1, String a2)

so that isWeakerThan("MD5", "SHA1") returns true and 
isWeakerThan("SHA-256", "SHA1") returns false. I know you have done a 
lot of constraints works in JDK 7. Do you have an existing one? 
Otherwise, I plan to manually assign a value to each known algorithm and 
compare it.

Thanks
Max



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