Re: gc-pbkdf2-sha1 is deprecated

[Bruno Haible]

Hi Bruce,

> Next question: what do I do about crypto/gc-pbkdf2-sha1? It is labeled 
> as "deprecated", but I need a function that produces precisely the same 
> result. It really doesn't matter to me that folks have figured out how 
> to jigger a file to produce an arbitrary sha1 sum. I only need a fairly 
> random result from summing a few tens of bytes of text. So as long as 
> "deprecate" doesn't mean it's going away, I'm fine.

It may go away, because the module crypto/gc-pbkdf2 contains more generic
API to do the same thing: gc_pbkdf2_hmac with first argument GC_SHA1.

Bruno