[Development] Backporting the Keccak change

[Thiago Macieira]

On Wednesday, 30 August 2017 23:12:40 PDT Lars Knoll wrote:
> > a) revert the 5.6 backport of 88a8feeacb9bdaff9ee06164424e407eb904cd10 so
> > that 5.6.x will forever calculate Keccak, not SHA3;
> > 
> > b) additionally backport 12c5264d9add1826d543c36d893db77262195fc6 to both
> > 5.6 and 5.9, with the proper binary compatibility notices, so that people
> > who need to can adapt their code to calculate Keccak. It won't be pretty,
> > but it will work.
> > 
> > I'm actually leaning towards  for 5.6 and (b) for 5.9.
> 
> Fully agree. That's IMO the best solution.

5.6 reversal: https://codereview.qt-project.org/204143. Needs to be +2'ed and 
included in the 5.6.3 release.

5.9 backport: https://codereview.qt-project.org/204144

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